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Виктор Олегович Пелевин
ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЬ: Товарищи депутаты, наша дискуссия зашла слишком далеко. Вернемся к обсуждаемому вопросу. Кто за то, чтобы принять статью 127 в данной редакции, — прошу поднять свои «Филиппсы» над головой. Кто против? Кто воздержался? Невооруженным глазом видно, что более двух третей от кворума. Объявляется перерыв до четырех часов утра.
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Issue Four of the TOMORROW almanac, illustrated with drawings on the theme of music and musicians, offers:
Vladislav PETROV. The Dispossessed and the Jackal A love story set in a terrifying Russian future.
Alexander CHUMANOV. Island of the Apes An ordinary present-day citizen with higher Soviet education finds himself in a fantastic world of apes. He discovers amazing parallels with the world he previously inhabited.
Viktor PELEVIN. The 9th Vision of Vera Pavlovna Vera, a public lavatory attendant, finds she has the ability to change the world around her. «We ourselves create the world around us. The reason why we're sitting in a washroom is our own souls» — this is her philosophical conclusion on life.
The first — literary — section of the almanac TOMORROW wraps up with verses by Anatoly GLANTZ, Dmitri SEMENOVSKY, Nikolai KAMENSKY, Nikolai GLAZKOV, Vitaly BABENKO, Daniil KLUGER, Mikhail AIZENBERG and Valentin RICH.
Igor BESTUZHEV–LADA. The Concept of Salvation An essay warning that if everything on Earth is left to follow its own path the next century will be the last for our civilization.
Norman SPINRAD. USSR, Inc.
An extraordinary receipt for the economic development of the late USSR prescribed by the well-known American science-fiction writer. The Soviet Union is gone but receipts are still in great demand.
Ten Weeks before the Ten Days that Shook the World Extracts taken from records of the State Meeting called by the Provisional Government in August 1917 with regard to the unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Bolshevik seizure of power.
The second — publicistic — section of the almanac TOMORROW ends with verses by Yevgeny LUKIN, Yevgeny MAYEVSKY, Yuri LEVITANSKY and Robert DESNOS.
Joseph STALIN. Shortcomings in Party Activity and Means of Liquidating Trotskyist and Other Double-Dealers Address given at the plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks 3rd — 5th March 1937. The editors foresee difficulties in translating this into English and express their regret.
Vyacheslav RYBAKOV. A Slav Farewell to the Dream Funeral march in two parts. The scholars of the Academy of Extended Knowledge try to make mankind happy innovating a grandiose programme to master a wonderful new planet.
