Фантастический альманах «Завтра». Выпуск второй (Аверченко, Чаликова) - страница 397
Морская змея; Человек-рыба; Рыба-человек. Из китайского сочинения «Книга гор и морей».
Онокентавр. Из книги Гуго Фольето «Бестиарий». Франция. XII в.
Рыба-Мелузина. Русский лубок. XVIII в.
Сатир. Гравюра Аристида Майоля.
Сфинкс. Древний Египет.
Химера с хеттского рельефа.
Кентавр. Древняя Греция.
Человек с лошадиными ногами. Из «Герефордской карты» Рихарда фон Гольдингама. XIII в.
Митра с головой льва. Иран.
The second issue of the TOMORROW almanac is
illustrated with drawings depicting fantastic
ideas and projects of different periods.
PUBLISHED IN IT ARE:
Alexander KATSURA
Valery GENКIN
Kidnapping
A chimera novel. Social satire and philosophic meditation are welded together by an exciting plot — a parody on a hit thriller. The authors are budding writers Soviet style: having started writing long ago, began publishing their works only recently.
Viktor PELEVIN
The Bulldozer's Day
A phantasmagoric story. The life of a secret «atomic» township: absurdity, spymania, hatred, degradation.
Yevgeny POPOV
Either… or… (Of Me, Flying Saucers and Communism)
An almost realistic story.
Yuri KOZLOV
Miscalculation
A young genius in the Soviet Union invented a method of time-transportation. A colleague of his in the USA did the same. Now they're both in the power of the military. The Soviet inventor travels to the recent past and chooses the exact time to be shot by Stalin’s secret service agents.
Mikhail KOZYREV
Leningrad
A fantasy novel written in the 1920s. A young revolutionary falls into sleep that lasts some forty years. On awakening he finds the «happy future» already built.
The first literary — section of the almanac wraps up with verses by the late Russian poet Arseny TARKOVSKY, science-fiction writer Gennady PRASHKEVICH, and present-day poet Yevgeny REYN.
Pope LEO XIII
Encyclic «Rerum novarum…»
Victoria CHALIKOVA
Ideology: Dreamers Are Not Welcome.
An essay on the role of utopian ideas and utopian literature in the present-day world.
Jerome K. JEROME
The New Utopia
At the dawn of the 20th century the famous English humorist writes a satirical story about what socialism would look like in good old Britain.
Programs of political parties
Documents of the early years of the century. It may be interesting to compare them both with the Utopians’ forecasts and with the promises and programs of present day politicians, including Western ones.
Pyotr STOLYPIN
Speech on the Land Law Draft
Also a document of those years 1906. The speaker was prime minister under Tzar Nicholas II and a resolute reformer — he carried out the land reform in Russia.