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KONSTANTIN SKVORECKY

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Konstantin Andreiovich Skvorecky (1917-) is a Russian-born writer of science fiction. Most of Skvorecky’s fiction was produced in the 1930s, including such minor classics as Tamara (1935), Plenilune (1936), Sirius na Rusi (1936) [translated as Three Who Made a Star, 1938], Mortidnik (1937), Vsyo eto (1938) [translated as And All This, 2003], Nadezhda (1939), Zoya (1939) and various others. He served in the Red Army in the Second World War, but disappeared shortly after the war. His reappearance coincided with the Chernobyl disaster. It is believed by some that Skvorecky, having been abducted by aliens, spent the years 1945-1986 on another planet. His memoir Yellow Blue Tibia (1999) provides an account of these missing years that explicitly asserts (or attempts to) the existence of aliens, an assertion which has been widely disbelieved. The memoir also asserts that he died inside Chernobyl in 1986. His more recent pamphlet When I Met the Aliens (And What They Told Me) (2000) is a satirical reimagining of the events of that novel, warning people of an alien invasion he claims is on-going.

Skvorecky presently lives in New York with his American wife and their young child. He has applied for US citizenship.

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