''RBG-Azimuth'' (''GDC-Azimuth) was a quarterly Ukrainian bilingual (
Russophone
This article details the geographical distribution of Russian-speakers. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the status of the Russian language often became a matter of controversy. Some Post-Soviet states adopted policies of derussi ...
and
Ukrainophone)
science fiction magazine
A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet.
Science fiction magazines traditionally featured speculative fiction in short story, novelette, novel ...
, published since 2006.
Its stories were written in the Russian language by authors living around the world. This included authors from Ukraine,
Russia
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,
Belarus
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,
Lithuania,
the
United States
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,
and others. The magazine name is an abbreviation that means “guidelines for damage control” in Russian “Руководство по Борьбе за Живучесть" (РБЖ).
RBG-Azimuth exclusively published one type of material - short stories. Each issue contained 10-13 stories. It claimed to revive traditions of the classic science fiction of the 1970-1980s (like
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and ...
,
Clifford Simak,
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
...
,
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky (russian: Аркадий Натанович Стругацкий; 28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris Natanovich Strugatsky ( ru , Борис Натанович Стругацкий; 14 A ...
). Its aim was to publish stories that help people live a better life. Since 2010 RBG-Azimuth and Hanna Concern Publishing issued books with set of the best sci-fi stories of the year.
The magazine was nominated on
Eurocon
Eurocon is an annual science fiction convention held in Europe. The organising committee of each Eurocon is selected by vote of the participants of the previous event. The procedure is coordinated by the European Science Fiction Society. The first ...
from Ukraine as the Best Magazine in 2010 and 2011
ВОЛФ-ньюс N2, 2011 (2), Ukrainian language
/ref> years. One of the authors is Nika Rakitina,
Editors
* P. Amnuel, PhD (Israel)
* Y. Gavrilenko, PhD (Russia), general editor
* S. Zhilevich (Belarus)
* V. Yatsenko (Ukraine), president
* I. Shlosberg (USA)
References
External links
Official website
2006 establishments in Ukraine
Magazines established in 2006
Science fiction magazines established in the 2000s
Quarterly magazines published in Russia
Literary magazines published in Russia
Science fiction magazines published in Russia
Russian-language magazines
Magazines published in Ukraine
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