McGuffin

Ken Kalfus’s short story (recommended by Electric Literature) is here:

http://recommendedreading.tumblr.com/post/47015972971/fiona-maazel-recommends-pu-239-by-ken-kalfus

I hope to read more by this author. Reading the story, I was convinced he was a Russian — but actually he’s an American who (crucially) spent time in the country. He must have read a fair amount of Russian SF too: a satirical genre if there ever was. And then there’s Tarkovsky’s films … Stalker … Solaris …

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