About the book: 1968 / Rudenko M. The Magic Boomerang: A Novel. / Authorized translation from Ukrainian by Z. Krakhmalnikova. M.: Young Guard, 1968. - (Library of Soviet Science Fiction). — 384 pp. 46 kopecks. 100,000 copies - signed for publication on October 30, 1968 by Nikolai Danilovich Rudenko. (Mikola Rudenko). (1920-2004).Ukr. owls prose writer, poet and public human rights activist, better known for his work. other genres. Genus. in the village Yuryevka (Voroshilovgrad region, now Ukraine), did not receive a higher education, participated in the Great Patriotic War, worked as an editor. Kyiv journal "Dnipro". He began publishing in 1947 (he made his debut as a poet). Since the late 1970s. became a famous dissident, was persecuted, arrested and sentenced to 7 years in the camps and 4 years in exile for “Ukr. nationalism"; in 1987 he emigrated to the USA. R. contacted the NF twice. His ch. NF production - “cosmological extravaganza” “Magic Boomerang” (Ukrainian 1966; Russian 1968) - is a lit. processing of the ideas of E. Däniken and other authors of the hypothesis about the “astronaut gods” who landed on Earth in ancient times (after the death of their planet, Phaeton); in R.’s interpretation, the aliens also pushed earth’s evolution. The second is fantastic. prod. R. - extravaganza story “Born by Lightning” (Ukrainian 1971). If it weren’t for “politics”, because of which R.’s name was deleted from bibliographies and reference books, the writer would probably have been very much in tune with the “Young Guard” SF of the late 1970s - early 1980s. Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.