Today, when the "space opera" ball (both imported and domestic) reigns on all bookstores, Sergei Snegov's trilogy is perceived completely differently than in the seventies. It's a pity. A Soviet science fiction writer had to have a lot of courage to tackle such a "suspicious" genre. In the USSR, space opera has always been considered a marginal, dubious and class alien direction. After all, the classics of Marxism-Leninism have long postulated: the higher reason must remain humane, this is one of its main defining features. Only representatives of a highly developed civilization, who built communism and achieved universal equality, are able to cross space... Consequently, star wars are simply impossible: why should representatives of two civilizations, who created a perfect society a long time ago, be at enmity? ..

Sergei Aleksandrovich Snegov, a gifted physicist who for years forged the superweapon of the Land of the Soviets, wanted to sneeze at these calculations. Malicious destroyers, space enemies of mankind, in his book are malicious by definition - this is how the fate of this civilization, which voluntarily undertook to personify the forces of chaos, developed. However, a philosophically grounded desire for destruction does not prevent them from overcoming huge distances in the blink of an eye, distorting the metric of space, creating the most powerful biocomputers and in every possible way demonstrating technical superiority over people - albeit local, but overwhelming. And the earthlings themselves, who invaded other people's possessions under the command of the gallant admiral Eli Gamazin, now and then forget about abstract humanism and begin to mow down the adversaries, all these "head eyes" with "invisibles", right and left, only the spray is flying. On the pages of Snegov's novel, battles take place, the scale of which would have been envied by the "destroyer of planets" Edmond Hamilton: matter here easily turns into space, gravity changes arbitrarily, force fields become a formidable weapon ... ". If in the course of the war with the Destroyers only space and matter were tested for strength, then in the final part of the epic, time itself becomes a weapon in the hands of mysterious frames, retired to the core of the galaxy. And the goals of the next supercivilization, which the earthlings had a chance to face, are much more mysterious than those of harmonious galaxies or those obsessed with a thirst for destruction of "malware".

One moment sharply distinguishes the epic of Sergei Snegov from the classic Anglo-American "space opera" of the thirties and fifties. Even the most terrible war in his book ends not with the universal extermination of one of the parties (or, say, with enslavement), but inevitable unification, fraternization despite all racial and cultural differences. What is now commonly called "political correctness", Sergei Aleksandrovich introduced into his book forty years ago, when such a term was never heard of, and one does not want to be ironic about the ideals of the heroes of this novel. The writer who has gone through fire, water and copper pipes is too sincere ...

Outcome: even today, the trilogy "People as Gods" is breathtaking. Grandiose star battles, nightmarish and amazing aliens, temporal paradoxes and spatial anomalies - all this is more than enough in modern science fiction. But the merit of Sergei Snegov is that he was the first. For this, you can forgive everything: the cumbersome plot, and the ponderous syllable, and the edifying narrative. Without the trilogy "People as Gods" Soviet science fiction would have become much poorer - and, consequently, the palette of contemporary Russian science fiction writers would have become noticeably impoverished.

about the author

Sergey Snegov (1910-1994) was born in Odessa. Having received his physical education, he moved to Leningrad, where he worked as an engineer at the Pyrometer plant. From 1936 to 1957 he was imprisoned and worked in various research institutions of the prison regime. After his release he lived in Kaliningrad. He made his debut in literature rather late. The first published work is the realistic novel In the Polar Night (1957), published in the Novy Mir magazine. He turned to science fiction in 1964 (the story "Thirty-two guises of Professor Kren"). In addition to the novel "People as Gods", which became his main work, Snegov penned more than a dozen large science fiction stories and short stories ("Ambassador without credentials", "Expedition to another world", "Chrononavigator"), as well as a large-scale dystopia "Dictator" ...

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When eighteen enemy ships, not yet entering the scope of their aimed strike, were in our zone of action, Leonidas and Allan at once set in motion the annihilators. While these were still cruise annihilators, not combat annihilators, they only destroyed space, the enemy could think that we ourselves rushed towards rapprochement. But they immediately saw that they were drawing closer to us not in one, but in all directions. Four of the eighteen enemy starships, captured by the cones of disappearing space, quickly broke away from their own, they were sucked towards us, they completely lost control. And what we saw, and what the surviving enemies undoubtedly saw, was tremendous. Now they know the size of human power. In the starry sky, four crimson suns flashed dazzlingly and immediately extinguished, forming foggy clouds. The clouds swirled, scattered, became invisible - the world emptiness was enriched by four new failures, ominous cruisers became new kilometers, just kilometers, not gas, not molecules, not atoms - one length deprived of bodily content, millions of kilometers of empty "nothing"!

People are like gods (collection)

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Galactic exploration

Part one

Vega Snake Girl

From Frascatti to old Rome

Peter the Astrologer came out.

Blacked high above him

The sky is a starry canopy.

He looked there, into the darkness,

From your plain.

And he dreamed

Strange pictures.

N. Morozov

I am a man: as a god I am doomed

To know the longing of all countries and all times.

1

For me, this story began with the fact that on the second day after returning to Earth, while walking over the craters of Kilimanjaro, I met Lusin riding a fire-breathing dragon.

I don't like flying dragons. They have something of an ancient theater. And I simply do not tolerate hulking pegasus. On Earth, for flights, I take a regular airplane - this is both more reliable and more convenient. But Lusin cannot imagine movement without dragons. At school, when these hulking monsters were just becoming fashionable, Lusin climbed on a training dragon to Chomolungma. The dragon soon died, even though he was wearing an oxygen mask, and Lusin was forbidden to appear in the stable for a month. Fifteen years have passed since then, but he has not grown wiser.

He insists that the soul of his ancestors, who deified these strange creatures, plays in him. In my opinion, he is original. André Sherstyuk, yes, they are ready to turn themselves inside out, just to amaze them with something - that is the kind of people they are!

And when a winged serpent rushed from the Indian Ocean, enveloped in smoke and flame, I immediately realized that Lusin was on him. Lusin shouted a greeting and landed on the cliff of Kibo Crater. I whirled in the air, examining his beast, then sat down too. Lusin ran up to me, we happily shook hands. We have not seen each other for two years. Lusin enjoyed my surprise.

The dragon was large, about ten meters. He sprawled powerlessly on the stones, wearily closed his bulging green eyes, his thin sides, armored with orange scales, swelled and sank, his wings trembled. Smoke billowed over the head of the beast, and when exhaled, flame burst from the mouth. Fire-breathing dragons were new to me.

“The latest model,” said Lusin. - I took it out for two years. Infovtsy praise. Good, no?

Lusin works at the Institute of New Forms - INFE - and does not get tired of boasting that they create living new formations, which nature will not reach even in a billion years. Some things, like talking dolphins, they really did well. Smoking like a volcano, the serpent did not seem beautiful to me. True, he flies effectively, I will not deny this.

Both pegasus and dragons are doing well in the air.

Lusin explained that when the muscles work, they develop an anti-gravity field, which is why they lose a good nine-tenths of their weight. But it's still strange for me to look when such massive animals easily rush upward. Dragons are usually quite slow. And I didn't like the smoke with this one, although Lusin said that both the smoke and the flame were only for beauty, sort of like the plumage of a peacock: it neither burns nor stains.

- All this props are useless. Unless, of course, you have the intention of scaring the kids with it.

Lusin lovingly patted the dragon on one of the frog's legs.

- Effective. Let's take you to Ora. Let them watch.

If there were any creatures on other planets, what could they be? Who knows, what if they still exist, just until science has reached the level to travel throughout the Universe and study the planets. When you read Sergei Snegov's science fiction novel People Like Gods, the existence of alien races seems quite real. The writer draws a well-thought-out world, talks about the laws of the universe and technological advances, and it is hard to believe that this world is fictional.

The novel consists of three books and is considered one of the most voluminous works of Soviet fiction. The writer himself said that the ideas of a space opera and biblical texts are intertwined in him. However, to a greater extent it is a fascinating fantasy that strikes the imagination of readers. Novels are read literally in one breath.

In the distant future, when all interstate problems have been resolved and science has stepped far forward, the world has changed beyond recognition. Everything people need is produced automatically, even synthetic food. Already no one will remember how it was before, and this is not considered necessary. Telepathic communication between a computer and a person has become possible, you can even find a soul mate by consulting a smart machine.

Flights between stars became possible due to the fact that now space can be turned into matter. Communication was established with the inhabitants of other planets. It turned out that there are many alien races. During an interstellar conference, it was revealed that aliens have a memory of powerful civilizations that waged war among themselves. Where are they now and is there a danger of meeting them?

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This is one of those books that cannot be ignored. She made me. Literally. After reading Invasion of Perseus in 5th grade, I was shocked. But he bravely continued to be a fool. But in the 8th I got hold of the "Ring of Reverse Time". And that's all, kirdyk. If I finished 8th with two lonely fours in the ocean of triples, then in the certificate the same two fours (in Russian and English) stood out ugly against the background of the other fives. And then - immediately ran to the matfak. And learn insanely interesting differential geometry, with the help of which it is so cool to describe non-Euclidean snails of space ...

I wrote all this not for the sake of bragging - I generally have a very modest opinion of myself. This only speaks of what Phenomenon is the trilogy "People as Gods" in ours (and, perhaps, in world literature). The main advantages of the trilogy are a perfectly worked out image of the civilization of the future, which is communist not at the behest of the editors, but simply because it is more fair and logical social order it is simply impossible to come up with, and deeply, succulently written scientific part. It is in these novels that you can taste physics, scientific research, to the very sense of strength that Asimov wrote about in his story of the same name.

And for this, Snegov can be forgiven for a relatively modest literary talent (although the trilogy is read easily - in one breath), and schematic characters and a certain amount of conventionality in describing other civilizations. These are all insignificant details, small specks on the frame of the grandiose canvas of the universe, in which people live and create - perfect, like gods, and ordinary, like you and me.

Low bow and eternal memory to Sergei Snegov - the creator of worlds.

Score: 10

Score: 10

For me, of course, this is a discovery novel, a discovery trilogy.

An outstanding example of the combination of SF and space opera. There are more references to the scientific element in the trilogy than in all the works of some "scientific" science fiction writers of the "new wave". Example: in the description of military operations, Snegov uses not the Newton-Cartesian model based on Euclidean geometry, but something very close to the Riemann-Lobachevsky geometry (curvature of space, movement along concave-curved arcs, intersection of parallel lines). And his spacecrafts fight not with lasers (blasters, plasma), as in cosmoopers, but with focused fields and bunches of energy. Where is the opera?

Now about the name. Why "People are like Gods"? God created the universe ex nihile - out of nothing, and at the very beginning of the novel we get to know the figure of the legendary scientist Andrei Tanev, a contemporary of Einstein and a Soviet prisoner who figured out how to transform matter into space and vice versa, thereby making the transformation of nothing into "something".

Hint: how could bureaucrats from literature in the USSR miss this? Therefore, they promoted the wretchedly fertile Andromeda Nebula.

A few more words about the beginning. For many writers, this is a problem. Snegov begins with the confessions of a misanthrope, but does so with such light irony that the reader is imbued with sympathy for this Eli. "Rise and develop", "forward to the victory of communism", "youth to the construction site" and other slogans that gave Soviet fiction (like many of Efremov's novels) a pass to life are absent.

Unlike the highly publicized "Andromeda Nebula" by Efremov, in which, apart from a wild dance, none of the arts of the distant future is shown, everything is here. The description of the music was especially exciting. Indeed, fantastic!

A very rich and beautiful world, incomparably more colorful than the wretched Efremov pseudo-fantasies.

And how with a slight irony, but reliably shown the experiments of geneticists who no longer know how to do this and breed dragons and pegasus!

Language and text. The text is really complicated, but not because Snegov has a poor command of the syllable, but because, forgive me, that we are so used to the superficial, often semi-slang style of modern writers, plus the fictional style of Western writers, that the level of the Soviet literary language seems difficult.

Now about emotions

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Usually, when Dostoevsky's stories begin ("the tear of one child"), then one is not a pity for everyone's happiness! In the greatest galactic battle, only one person died - the son of GG. But how bitter and woe is this loss, if you live through the eyes of the GG!

By the way, what has been said also applies to Snegov's own words that the trilogy is a “soft parody” of space operas and biblical texts. There is no parody there! Everything is more than serious! Most likely Snegov said these words to divert some of the criticism from himself.

Now about the cons.

Unfortunately, society is ruled by the Machine God (more precisely, the triumvirate of machines). The triumvirate of machines, of course, does not even have a thought to rebel against humanity and harm it, but alas, it is sad to see how the Grand Council (something between democracy and meritocracy) obeys the orders of this noblest of the matrices.

At the end of the trilogy, they got completely out of their business there, and in fact the confrontation described in the second part simply repeated itself. We would sit in our spiral arm of the galaxy.

Technically, Snegov too often uses the regret argument, which he does not always succeed in. The heroes first report that they are very sorry for pushing, and then nothing really catastrophic happens in the text.

Well, the end is a little confusing, this is a thing in itself.

And yet, despite its disadvantages, Snegov turns out to be head and shoulders above all those Soviet science fiction writers who wrote about the conquest of space.

Score: 10

The book is fascinating and good, but elements of “old” fiction still creep in from all over. Utopia of a "bright future", Soviet slogans, space partnership, help your neighbor without sparing yourself. You can also see this in the description of life forms: the author invented such unreal samples and at what they are so often inhabited in the Universe that it's just horror ... It's like the task of the pioneers in science fiction, to come up with many creatures unlike humans and adequately and logically describe their image lifestyles. It seems to me more logical to assume a small population ... The plot also does not suffer from plot twists: we go and explore the Universe. The author draws completely "stoned" and fantastic pictures and actions in the Universe, which rarely will anyone even see in a dream, and in fact it seems that the plot is mostly tied to this: there is a physical possibility of the birth of a black star - we will describe, non-Euclidean - we will describe , strange metal planets - let's describe! And so many, many things ... It feels like the book is just an artistic way to describe the astronomical-physical fantasies of the author.

I still love more logically connected plot-location-atmosphere-action-ideas ... In this regard, for me, Hyperion and the company of Dan Simmons are infinitely high as an ideal.

And Snegov is good. Taking into account my dislike for excessive pretentiousness and generally old fiction, and even more so the Soviet one, "People like Gods" captured me, it was interesting to read, though not without drawbacks ...

If I read this work as a child, I would have liked it much more.

Score: 7

Snegov's epic is a classic of Russian science fiction, and for this reason it is absolutely necessary to read it.

A bright future on Earth - now it is so small that even this not very successful attempt to describe the universal scale sometimes pulls to re-read in fragments. The scale is, of course, great. The picture is grand. The techniques of war in space are interesting in themselves. But the descriptions are scattered, a lot of things that fall out of the range of consideration by the author. Therefore, from time to time, there is a feeling of sagging the logic of the narrative.

Of course, in fact, as a writer who speaks the language, Snegov is weak. His writing style can be called naive, like that of Kazantsev or Tupitsyn. Only the originality of the idea attracts attention and allows, in general, to rate it higher. He is not a graphomaniac, like Kuzmenko, but neither is he a master like Efremov, Larionova, Gansovsky or Pavlov.

The material of the epic clearly shows the difference between the Soviet and Western SF when considering the confrontations at the level of the galaxy. Everything that does the main character, he does for others, and only along the way solves his existential problems. He is driven by a disinterested affection for friends and a love of justice.

But objectively speaking, this reading is for the average school age- to discover the scale of the world.

Score: 7

The iron wall separating the two worlds of fantasy was unceremoniously broken. Sergei Snegov decided to combine the traditions of Soviet fantastic utopia and Western fantasy fighter. And he did it perfectly. There are enough beautiful descriptions of the future, and fierce battles in deep space.

Snegov's future is bright and clear-cut. The world is grandiose; there is something exciting in the picture of humanity playing with planets, like a child with cubes. There are thunderstorms on schedule, your safety is vigilantly monitored by a cybernetic Guardian, and your absence is spaceship the sea is perceived as deprivation and romance of distant wanderings :)

And the battles are immense. You can't get off with trivial blasters here; the warring parties casually annihilate entire planets, twist space into a cochlea and leave in perpendicular time. I also liked the funny idea of ​​introducing dragons, pegasus and angels into space battles. The Angel of Trumpets is generally one of the cutest characters.

Here the language is stilted in places, but it is saved by passages on the verge of banter, like: “Be calm, all the organs of the Protection of Atrocity and Planting Treachery will notify about your loyalty to the sacred principles of evil ...” "- comes out well. The narrative flows easily and smoothly, so you don't notice any flaws, greedily swallowing page after page.

Score: 10

In the mid-80s of the 20th century. this book was one of the most expensive on book flea markets and ruins and cost 35-40 rubles, the money at that time was very decent (a third or a quarter of the salary of a mid-level specialist with higher education). And after all, they bought, and stood in line to read the book from the happy owners. And the book was worth it!

Yes, albeit not very frankly, the book gave a scoop. But only a little "smell". And "taste", that is, content and ideas, was probably the best Soviet space opera (or SF?) With beautifully described worlds and solid charismatic heroes challenging the universe.

Easy language and unobtrusive digressions about the history of mankind give a figurative, three-dimensional picture of the world of the future, where people are trying to rise to the level of "Gods". Yes, among the many open civilizations, people are the most ... But only up to certain, known boundaries. And then ... an unexpected but predictable meeting with an opponent equal in intelligence and development of civilization. Alas, not all civilizations develop in the same direction, and what is right and good for Earthlings and their friends is not at all like this to malware (destroyers). Natural allies also appear.

A bold and rather difficult book to read, especially for people who are not too crushed by various "theories of relativity" and adolescents, for whom it seems to be designed. In terms of complexity, this fantasy is more in the spirit of Efremov than Jules Verne. The second was recommended to us to read in the junior and middle grades, but for some reason Snegov was not. Although now I regret that "People ..." did not come across to me at school. Perhaps, in this case, I would have become familiar with fiction a little earlier than with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, you see, it would have been more useful ... In general, I recommend it to all connoisseurs of Soviet fiction. And not every (even Soviet) science fiction writer so brightly and carelessly sends his heroes to other constellations, confronts them with superior intelligence and allows them to bend space and turn back time.

Score: 10

I heard a lot about this cycle ... but still did not reach my hands to read ... I gathered my strength and did not regret it at all ... throughout the reading I was never left wondering how this could have been written then ... the cycle is fundamental, complete, scientific, beautiful ... I was reading and could not tear myself away ... science fiction in its purest form ... does not at all give off communism and the past "bright" future ... the whole cycle is saturated with humanism and faith in man ... he reminded me of the Strugatskys' trilogy about progressors ... in general, the "space odyssey" turned out to be glorious and it is not for nothing that the name of Snegov is put on a par with the classics of Russian and world science fiction by modern science fiction writers!

E. Brandis and Vl. Dmitrevsky

About the novel by Sergei Snegov "People are Gods"

Reply to the reader

The socio-fantastic novel by S. Snegov, entitled "People as Gods", is the antithesis of the eponymous utopia of H.G. Wells, written by the renowned English science fiction writer shortly after his visit Soviet Russia and a significant meeting with Lenin.

Recall that in Wells's novel, a happy and bright world of another dimension, where Mr. Barnstaple accidentally finds himself with a small group of compatriots, remains a utopia - an unrealizable fragile dream that has no real basis for its realization ...

And now, more than forty years later, the Soviet science fiction writer S. Snegov wrote an epic work imbued with optimism and unshakable faith in the power of reason and the nobility of the feelings of our distant descendants, who built a magnificent world in which Man rose in his capabilities on a par with him in ancient times invented gods.

Snegova's novel, originally published in the collections of Lenizdat - "Hellenic Secret" (1966) and "Invasion of Perseus" (1968), recently came out as a separate volume, with an epigraph replacing the editorial annotation, taken from the newspaper Pravda (dated July 31, 1970) .): "... The imagination is captivated by the grandeur of human designs and their accomplishments by S. Snegov's cosmic epic" People as Gods ", which is something like an answer to the pessimistic view of the future of humanity, expressed by Wells in one of his novels ..."

The novel received good marks in the periodicals, was greeted with numerous letters from readers demanding continuation. The epic consists of two books: Galactic Exploration and Invasion of Perseus. The writer is currently working on the third book.

Reader V. Voinov from Arzamas in his remark "Who are the gods?" ("In the World of Books", 1972, No. 4) claims that Snegov's book "is replete with borrowings from Western fiction. Suffice it to compare it with the novel "Aliens from Nowhere" by the French writer F. Karsak: here and there the struggle with crystalline rational beings is depicted. Even the description of the planet, on which the "conference" of the intelligent inhabitants of the Universe is held in both works, is extremely similar. "

The point is that the modeling of certain conceivable situations and the future possibilities of mankind is based on our present ideas and hypotheses, on development trends rooted in reality itself. Hence, in many cases, the similarity of themes and plots, and from this you can not get away.

So, the first part of the novel by Sergei Snegov was published in 1966. And Francis Karsak's novel "Aliens from Nowhere" appeared in Russian, in a collection of the same name in 1967. But the idea of ​​a galactic community of highly developed civilizations became the property of science fiction earlier - back in the forties, and now it is seriously discussed by scientists. Both writers, independently of each other, chose the form of an action-packed adventure novel and brought the action to the vastness of the Galaxy. And if you give free rein to your imagination and imagine the different biological structures of intelligent beings inhabiting planets with different natural conditions, then the similarity will be inevitable.

As for crystalline intelligent beings, this is a clear misunderstanding. They could have been in Snegov's novel, since life forms not only on a carbon basis, but also, for example, on silicium, are quite acceptable. However, Snegov develops a different concept. The "destroyers" or "servos" with which the humanity of the distant future is forced to fight in his novel are nothing more than the self-developing and self-reproducing works that were once created by the galaxies. In the image of Snegov, "servos" combine biological tissues and perfect mechanisms. This does not in the least contradict modern scientific hypotheses.

And the last thing. For some reason it seemed to V. Voinov that S. Snegov belittles a person in front of machines, entrusting them to protect the future communist society. “Ultimately,” the reader writes, “it turns out that the machine knows everyone as it does not know itself.”

This reproach is not valid.

A giant leap forward made for last years such sciences as electronics and cybernetics, has caused fierce debate among scientists on the topic of "man and machine." In Western fiction, often reflecting the arbitrary "predictions" of bourgeois futurology, many works have appeared in which biological work displace people not only from the sphere of production, but also replace them in all types of spiritual activity, decisively gaining the upper hand over their creator - man.

Soviet writers display reasonable circumspection in touching on the problem of "man and machine". Using the scientific hypotheses of authoritative scientists in their work, our science fiction writers see in the most perfect thinking machine of the future not a competitor, not a rival, but a faithful helper of man.

It is in this capacity that Snegov's novel presents thinking and calculating devices, from the Big State Machine to the imperceptible "Guardians" who protect every earthling from absurd accidents and unjustified risks, eliminating the need to overload the brain with information, etc.

But is it really that bad, as it seems to the reader V. Voinov? Do cybernetic machines of our day "belittle" the programmers and operators working on them by the fact that they accelerate the most complex computations tens of thousands of times?

Do artificial kidneys or lungs that extend his life "belittle" a person?

So why not believe in the amazing machines of the future, capable of summarizing public opinion on the basis of gigantic information, giving good advice, offering multiple or only possible solutions?

“We asked the machine to check the correctness of our candidacy, adopted unanimously by the Grand Council,” Vera tells her brother Eli. "The car confirmed our choice."

From this it is easy to understand that it was not the BGM, but the Grand Council, that is, a collective of people enjoying special confidence, that proposed Eli's candidacy for the post of commander of the Earth's space fleet. But what does the "protection" of the future communist society have to do with it?

It would be possible to continue the conversation about Sergei Snegov's novel "People as Gods", because he deserves it. And although there is no dispute about tastes, we wanted to show the fallacy of V. Voinov's judgments.

E. Brandis,

Vl. Dmitrevsky

Leningrad

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About one review by Sergei Gorodetsky EPISODE OF THE HISTORY OF AKMEISM In the issue of the Petrograd newspaper Rech on November 3, 1914, its sworn observer Sergei Gorodetsky published an extensive article “Literary Week. Poems about War (in Apollo) ”. In this article, so far