Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale
Dust-jacket design of the 1959 English edition | |
| Author | Ivan Yefremov |
|---|---|
| Original title | Туманность Андромеды |
| Translator | George Hanna |
| Illustrator | Unknown |
| Cover artist | Nikolay I. Grishin |
| Language | Russian |
| Series | The Great Circle |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Molodaya Gvardiya Foreign Language Publishing House |
Publication date | 1957 |
| Publication place | USSR |
Published in English | 1959 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-8285-1856-4 |
| OCLC | 469991798 |
| LC Class | PG3476.E38 T83 1950z and PG3476.E38 T83 1980 |
| Followed by | "The Heart of the Serpent" |
Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale (Russian: "Туманность Андромеды", romanized: Tumannost' Andromedy, lit. 'Andromeda Nebula'), is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov, written in 1955–1956 and published in 1957. It was translated into English as Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale by George Hanna. The novel predicted some future inventions (borazon, space probe, powered exoskeleton and ion thruster). The German translation of the novel which was highly censored was serialized in the East German popular science magazine Jugend und Technik in 1958. It was made into a film in 1967, The Andromeda Nebula.
Yefremov's 1958 short story "The Heart of the Serpent" and the 1968 novel The Bull's Hour, which are set in the same universe some 200 years later, are considered its sequels.