Vadim Shefner

Vadim Sergeyevich Shefner ; was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer. He started publishing poetry in 1936 and his first poetry collection was published in 1940. He turned to humorous and philosophical science fiction in the early 1960s, but continued publishing non-genre fiction and poetry.

Works

"The Friar of Chikola" and "A Provincial's Wings", tr. Helen Saltz Jacobson, in New Soviet Science Fiction, New York, Macmillan, 1979,
The Unman, New York, Collier Books, 1981, , 233p. Includes:
*The Unman, trs. Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky
*Kovrigin’s chronicles, tr. Antonina W. Bouis
"A Modest Genius: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups", in:
*Russian Science Fiction 1969, ed. Robert Magidoff, New York Univ. Press, 1969, pp. 83–100.
*View from Another Shore, ed. Franz Rottensteiner, New York, Seabury Press, 1973, Second edition Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1999, and
*The 1974 Annual World's Best SF, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, DAW, 1974, pp. 93–107.