(1900-1985) Russian author, invariably in collaboration with his son Sergei Abramov. The novel-length title story they contributed to Khozhdenie za Tri Mira (anth 1966; trans Gladys Evans with other stories as Journey across Three Worlds: Science Fiction Stories 1973) is sf. Their sf novel Vsadniki Niotkuda (1968; trans George Yankovsky as Horsemen from Nowhere 1969 Moscow; vt Riders from Nowhere 1999) sees Earth visited by enigmatic Alien "clouds" which create Doppelganger-like "counterparts" of the human cast which turn out to be Communications devices constructed to facilitate meaningful First Contact between their makers and the human race. They can only be distinguished from the humans they have been modelled upon through their powers of memory, for (unlike humans) they remember everything. One of the Abramovs' short stories, "The Time Scale", appears in Vortex: New Soviet Science Fiction (anth 1970) edited by C G Bearne. A later novel is Journey across Three Worlds (trans Gladys Evans with other stories as coll 1973 Moscow). [PN/DRL]
Aleksandr Ivanovich Abramov
born Moscow: 1 December 1900
died Moscow: 4 March 1985
works
- Vsadniki Niotkuda
(Moscow: Detskaia literatura, 1968) with Sergei Abramov [hb/] - Horsemen from Nowhere (Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1969) with Sergei Abramov [trans by George Yankovsky of the above: hb/uncredited]
- Riders from Nowhere (Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1999) with Sergei Abramov [vt of the above trans: pb/]
- Journey across Three Worlds (Moscow: Mir, 1973) [coll: trans by Gladys Evans from various sources: hb/uncredited]
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