![]() ![]() While speaking before an assembly, their leader, Toscoob, says that the city must be destroyed to ease the fall of Mars. Mars is now ruled by Engineers but all is not well. Later in the novel, it is explained that Martians are descendants of both local races and of Atlanteans who came there after the sinking of their home continent (here Tolstoy was inspired by Helena Blavatsky's books). However, the gap between the ruling class and the workers is very strong and reminiscent of early capitalism, with workers living in underground corridors near their machines. ![]() Looking for a companion for the travel, he finally leaves Earth with a retired soldier, Alexei Gusev.Īrriving on Mars, they discover that the planet is inhabited by an advanced civilization. An engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los', designs and constructs a revolutionary pulse detonation rocket and decides to set course for Mars. The story begins in the Soviet Union, just after the end of the Russian Civil War. Aelita ( Russian: Аэлита) also known as Aelita, or The Decline of Mars is a 1923 science fiction novel by Russian author Aleksey Tolstoy. ![]()
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