Hardcover. 8vo. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York. 1978. 319 pgs. First

Hardcover. 8vo. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York. 1978. 319 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The book is a collection of short stories describing various aspects of human life on Earth in the 22nd century. The plots of the stories are not closely connected, but they feature a shared set of characters. The most commonly recurring characters are Evgeny Slavin and Sergei Kondratev, who, as a result of a lengthy journey through interstellar space at near the speed of light, are thrown over a century into the future and must re-integrate into the society of their great-grandchildren. EB; Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 319 pages.