1 | Great Ring is cycle of novels, written by Russian writer Creator/IvanYefremov. Novels in cycle (in in-world time order) are |
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3 | * Туманность Андромеды (''Literature/AndromedaNebula'' a.k.a. Andromeda: A Space Age Tale) is a communism utopia, describing the guiding principles of the society and briefly noting a hard way to it. |
4 | * Сердце Змеи (''Literature/TheSnakesHeart'' or ''[[GratuitousLatin Cor Serpentis]]'') is a novella describing the contact between an Earth's spaceship and that of an alien humanoid life form, but based on hydrogen fluoride, instead of hydrogen oxide (water) solutions. |
5 | * Час Быка (''Literature/TheBullsHour'') is a totalitarian {{dystopia}}. It describes mission to the planet colonized by humans, who escaped from Earth long before the current society was established. |
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8 | !!Tropes the cycle provides examples of: |
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10 | * AbsentAliens: Averted. There are loads and loads of them. The only problem is that lack of reasonably cheap FasterThanLightTravel makes it's a pain in the ass to communicate with them, though it ''does'' get invented by the end of the series. |
11 | * AfterTheEnd: Hinted abouth the Earth's society in the first novel, explicitly said in the second. |
12 | * AlternateContinuity: Despite describing pretty much the same society on the Earth, as in other books, the ''Cor Serpentis'' is explicitly a FirstContact story and no Great Circle is ever mentioned. |
13 | * FasterThanLightTravel: Only quite-slower-then-light (up to 0.8 c) travels in the first novel, near-light in the ''Cor Serpentis'' and full FTL (but still very complicated) in the ''Bull's Hour''. All of them require very much effort. |
14 | * NoPoverty: It's {{Utopia}}. |
15 | * {{Utopia}}: The Earth society itself. |
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