# asimov and russia

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 19, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asimov-and-russia/62540 "2001-04-19T13:35:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asimov-and-russia/62540/1 "2001-04-19T13:35:20Z")

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Did Isaac Asimov ever write any novels set in russia?

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asimov-and-russia/62540/2 "2001-04-19T13:59:05Z")

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None that I’m aware of, although he _did_ edit and write the intros for **Soviet Science Fiction** and \*\* More Soviet Science Fiction\*\*. In the formwer he criticized Dr. Kazantsev’s theory that the Tunguska Event was due to an exploding alien spacecraft, but in the into he wrote to Baxter and Atkins’ \*\*The Fire Came By[/b} he wrote that this was a reasonable idea, having evidently suffered amnesia in the intervening years. He later said that he’d seen the error of his ways.

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asimov-and-russia/62540/3 "2001-04-19T14:24:01Z")

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yes. Much of “Fantastic Voyage II” was set in Russia.