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> The Soviet Venera program was really fascinating Reading my uncle’s old tech magazines and sci-fi from the 70’s was fascinating. Eastern European sci fi was
by Swizec 1y ago
> The Soviet Venera program was really fascinating
Reading my uncle’s old tech magazines and sci-fi from the 70’s was fascinating. Eastern European sci fi was all about colonizing Venus and the Venera landers. The way kids in USA are obsessed with Mars, kids in my part of Europe used to be obsessed with Venus before the influx of Western media.
Getting to grow up on the cusp of that vibe shift was cool.
- glimshe 1y agoCool! What tech magazines are you talking about?
- mananaysiempre 1y agoOn the sci-fi side one notable example is The Land of Crimson Clouds (Страна багровых туч, 1959) by the Strugatsky brothers. Unfortunately, there’s no official English translation that I can find.
- FuriouslyAdrift 1y agoA great (if not incredibly satirical and cynical) sci-fi book on Venus colonization is The Space Merchants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
- mr_toad 1y agoIf you’re into hard SF I recommend The House of Styx, and The House of Saints by Derek Künsken.
- zabzonk 1y agoanother sf story by cordwainer smith: https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-whenthepeoplefell/smithcordwainer-whenthepeoplefell-00-e.html https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-whenthepeoplefel...
- romanhn 1y agoNot the OP, but Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technology for the Youth) was quite popular in the Soviet Union. https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/tekinkia-molodezhi-russian-sci-fi-barbican-into-the-unknown-160517 https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/tekinkia-molodezhi-russ...
- Swizec 1y agoŽivljenje in tehnika[1] – popular science magazine in Slovenia that's been running since 1950. Grandparents used to have my uncle's collection from I guess his high school years. Spanned from the mid 70's and into the 80's. I used to read random issues when I'd go visit. My favorite were the 70's stories about "We are imminently going to have AI cars. Experiments are underway and trucks can now autonomously drive long distances on the highway! Humanoid robots are coming soon look at this super dextrous hand!!". [1] https://www.tzs.si/zivljenje-in-tehnika/revija https://www.tzs.si/zivljenje-in-tehnika/revija
- chasil 1y agoThis Kurzgesagt video is equally sci-fi, but of the "potentially possible if we wanted to bankrupt the planet" variety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI