Aelita

( Russian - Aelita ( Zakat Marsa ) - 1923 )

novel by Alexei Tolstoi

translated by Lucy Flaxman then Antonina W. Bouis then Leland Fetzer

Published: Foreign Languages Publishing House - hardback - 1950 & 1957 ( trans. by L.F. )
ISBN: none

MacMillan - hardback - 1981 ( trans. by A.W.B. ) ( MacMillan Best of Soviet Science Fiction )
ISBN: 0026192004 / 9780026192002

titled 'Aelita or, the Decline of Mars'
Ardis - trade paperback - 1985 ( trans. Le.F. )
ISBN: 0882337882 / 9780882337883

Raduga Publishing - paperback - 1996 ( trans. by L.F. )
ISBN: 505003454X / 9785050034540

Fredonia Books - paperback - 2001 ( POD )
ISBN: 1589633741/ 9781589633742


synopsis
Tells the story of a Soviet expedition to Mars with the aim of establishing communism. A Red Army officer foments a rebellion of the native Martians, who are in fact long-ago emigrants from Atlantis.

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films
'Aelita, Queen of Mars' 1924