Andromeda by Ivan Yefremov (from the SciFan database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)


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	Andromeda, by Ivan Yefremov


	Novel, first publication in December 1959 , latest edition in December 1980


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	Andromeda is a scientific fantasy on the grand scale; it tells of the gigantic growth of science and engineering on our own planet where a new society has come into being, and of life in other parts of the Universe in the Era of the Great Circle, a system of intergalactic communications that keeps earth in touch with the entire Cosmos. "Long before the first Soviet Sputnik went into orbit and demonstrated the possibility of man's age-old dream of reaching other worlds and planets, my mind had been occupied with the idea of manned flights to outer space, to other galaxies," writes Yefremov. "In contrast to the science fiction that takes as its leitmotif the destruction of mankind as the result of a devastating war of the worlds, or that is advocacy of the capitalist system that is supposed to be able to exist for hundreds of thousands of years and embrace the whole of our Galaxy, I wanted to express the idea of friendly contact between various cosmic civilizations. Thus the idea of the Great Circle (the name I first intended giving the novel) was born and developed, its chief character being the man of the future." Source: book jacket.


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