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Humans as Gods
''Humans as Gods'' ((ロシア語:Люди как боги), translit. ''Lyudi kak bogi'') is a 1966–1977 science fiction trilogy by Soviet author Sergey Snegov. Despite being initially intended as a parody on space opera, mythological and religious cliché, the novels embody a complex set of ideas on the fundamental principles of the world's structure and development, and the directions of the civilizations' possible future. While a number of plot elements seem to be taken from the general science fiction concepts, the resulting story is unique in many ways. The central conflicts are based on the assumption that the face of super-civilization must be defined by its comprehension of the Universe as a whole, by the understanding of its elementary, most basic (and thus most deeply and widely operative) laws. This manner of narration contributes to a clear and powerful interconnection between the initial problems and the story arc.
==Creation and publication history==
Snegov's career in literature was a hard one: being subjected to repression during Stalin's rule, he remained under informal suspicion in later life. The very idea behind ''Humans as Gods'' was to write something publishable, a book nobody would object to.〔''Vinogradskiy L.'' (21-27.05.1990) (Norilsk: my love and hate!.. (S. Snegov's interview) ) // Siberian Newspaper N 20.〕 The author initially deemed this work as a light reading, merely another spacefaring adventure. The planned novel's design differed from the mainstream Western science fiction, as Snegov put it, in just one feature: being ''optimistic'' about the future. Nevertheless, the first book has been rejected by four publishers before being printed (which was unusual for the Soviet fiction publishers).〔''Prashkevich G.'' (2007) (The Red Sphinx ) // Svinyin and Sons. ISBN 978-5-98502-054-0.〕
The first novel was published under the title ''Humans as Gods'' in 1966 by Lenizdat, in the storybook collection ''The Hellenic Mystery'' by different authors. The second novel appeared in a collection likewise: it was printed in 1968 by the same publisher. At that time the second novel has been bearing the name ''Straitened Amid Stars'', with ''The Invasion of Perseus'' being the name of its first part. Curiously, the collection as a whole was titled ''The Invasion of Perseus''. The novels got their final names in the 1971 edition by Kaliningrad Publishing House, when they were published in one volume as a dilogy ''Humans as Gods''.
The third novel was written after a considerable amount of time and published in 1977 by Lenizdat. It was not until 1982 that the trilogy has been finally printed in one volume (by the same publisher). Snegov has cut the text significantly for this edition; the first two books were revised most dramatically, their size being reduced by more than 15% (mostly at the expense of the non-action scenes, alien civilizations' depictions and details revealing the heroes' characters). As a result, some of Snegov's fans put special interest in the original, unabridged versions of the text.
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