Stellar Ships

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Star ships
russian edition, 2003
Author	Ivan Yefremov
Original title	Russian: Звёздные корабли
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian
Genre(s)	Science fiction
Media type	Print (Paperback)

Star ships or Stellar Ships (Russian name "Zvezdnye Korabli", Russian: Звёздные корабли) is a short story by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov written in 1944, first published in 1948 (USSR). [1]

This story is about a dug up of an ancient dinosaur bone with the mysterious bullet hole (or "blaster hole") and a discovery of an alien skull and his "portret" nearby. This became a starting point and a cover story to the philosophical idea of plurality of the mind cradles in the Universe, similarity of the planet evolution paths, similarity of the physiology and psychology. Efremov states the final perspective for all civilisations as The Great Circle, which will unite them all.

v • d • e Works by Ivan Yefremov Novels Andromeda • The Bull's Hour • The Land of Foam • Razor's Edge • Thais of Athens Short stories Olgoi-Khorkhoi • The Heart of the Serpent • Cutty Sark • Stellar Ships • A Meeting Over Tuscarora • The Yurt of the Raven • Aphaneor, The Arkharkhellen's Daughter • Five Paintings Non-fiction Road of Winds