The Bull's Hour
The Bull's Hour ( Russian: Час Быка, Chas Byká) is a social science fiction novel written by Russian author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops after realizing that it contained a sharp criticism of the current state of affairs in the USSR disguised as a critique of "Capitalism" and Chinese-style communism of that time.
This novel is considered a sequel to the 1957 novel Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale, taking place in the same universe some century or more later. Even though the cast of characters is entirely different, an occasional reference is made to the events and characters of the previous volume. For example, the main character in The Bull's Hour is a female historian who on one occasion remembers most of the notable Andromeda characters as historical figures.
Plot summary
Some 3000 years in the future, a Communist Earth has just developed faster-than-light space travel based on the experiment of Ren Boz (of The Andromeda Nebula). Using the new technology, Earth constructs "straight-beam" starships which travel by sliding on the edge between our Universe ("Shakti") and the Anti-Universe ("Tamas"). The second ship of that kind, Dark Flame, departs from the Solar System on a mission to a habitable planet Tormance (the name is borrowed from David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus) in the Lynx constellation, which was reported by alien space voyagers from Cepheus to be colonized by humans, thought to be Earth escapees from the Age before World Unification.
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The Hour
by: Trial KennedyOn and on I'm feeling blue
On my own, to see, to do
Everything it seems is time
Like a book song, that rhyme
I can only say that time has come
The waiting's on your own
If you're feeling insecure
Happening not fewer
I can only say that time has come
Like a drum, a gun, I'm done
And the waiting's on
On and on, I'm feeling blue
On my own, to see, to do
Getting it on the two
The repetition
Is it a deja vu
Waiting on the hour
[x2]
With a flash before eyes
Is an impact disguise
On and on, I'm feeling blue
On my own, to see, to do
Getting it on the two
The repetition
Is it a deja vu
Waiting on the hour
[x2]
Waiting on the hour
On and on, I'm feeling blue
On my own, to see, to do