Through attending events such as Finncon and Eurocon I have come into contact with a number of Russian SF fans. I know that SF flourishes in Russia. There are, as I understand it, at least 400 SF books published there every year. And yet I am only familiar with the work one contemporary Russian author, and that’s because Ekaterina Sedia lives in the USA and writes in English. There must be a lot of wonderful fiction that I am missing out on. Which is why I am pleased to hear that Comrade Mann and his apparatchiks are to produce The Solaris Book of Soviet Science Fiction. Not that our Russian friends are Soviets these days, but hopefully this will open the doors to a bit more Russian SF.