Vadim Shefner

Vadim Sergeyevich Shefner (Russian: Вади́м Серге́евич Ше́фнер); (December 30, 1914 (January 12, 1915) - January 5, 2002) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer. He started publishing poetry in 1936 and his first poetry collection was published in 1940.^{[citation needed]} He turned to humorous and philosophical science fiction in the early 1960s, but continued publishing non-genre fiction and poetry.^{[citation needed]}

• "The Friar of Chikola" and "A Provincial's Wings", tr. Helen Saltz Jacobson, in New Soviet Science Fiction, New York, Macmillan, 1979, ISBN 0-02-578220-7
• The Unman, New York, Collier Books, 1981, ISBN 0-02-610060-6, 233p. Includes:
  • The Unman (Chelovek s piatiyu ne), trs. Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky
  • Kovrigin’s chronicles (Devushka u obryva), tr. Antonina W. Bouis
• "A Modest Genius: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups" ("Skromny geniy"), in:
  • Russian Science Fiction 1969, ed. Robert Magidoff, New York Univ. Press, 1969, pp. 83–100.
  • View from Another Shore, ed. Franz Rottensteiner, New York, Seabury Press, 1973, ISBN 0-8164-9151-8 Second edition Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-85323-932-0 and ISBN 0-85323-942-8
  • The 1974 Annual World's Best SF, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, DAW, 1974, pp. 93–107.