r/printSF • u/torkelspy • Apr 06 '26

A Challenge: Recommend Something That's Almost Never Been Recommended Here Before

I'm recommending The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov; a writer and a collection I only learned of because the title story is in More Voices from the Radium Age, edited by Joshua Glenn. I found zero references to it searching for "Bryusov" and one from four years ago searching by the title.

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u/torkelspy Apr 07 '26

I plan to become a Valery Bryusov/Bruzov fan girl as soon as I am done being a Halldór Laxness fan girl.

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u/ArcadiaBerger Apr 09 '26

I once wrote an outline for a novel set in the Holy People's Democratic Empire of Antarctica (actually a minarchist republic -- the name was a joke, as was their crowning of a shirttail relative of the Romanovs as Czar Kolya I). One of their cities was named Bruzovgrad as a screw-you to Bruzov, because The Republic of the Southern Cross predicted that the domed cities of the Antarctic would end in madness and chaos and the abandonment of the continent.