Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen
of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside
somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years
away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive
external threat to hold it together, to give it purpose and direction,
he tells the writers: 'I want you to concoct a story about aliens poised
to invade earth ...
I want it to be massively detailed, and
completely believable. If you need props and evidence to back it up,
then we can create them. But when America is defeated, your story must
be so convincing that the whole population of Soviet Russia believes in
it - the population of the whole world!' The little group of writers
gets down to the task and spends months working on it.
But then
new orders come from Moscow: they are told to drop the project; Stalin
has changed his mind; forget everything about it. So they do. They get
on with their lives in their various ways; some of them survive the
remainder of Stalin's rule, the changes of the 50s and 60s.
And
then, in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the survivors gather again, because
something strange has started to happen. The story they invented in
1946 is starting to come true ... A typically mind-blowing SF novel
from one of the genre's literary stars.
Yellow Blue Tibia : A Novel - Adam Roberts
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