The Hour Of The Ox

Socio-philosophical novel "hour of the Bull" - one of the basic works of the founder of modern Russian fiction, a philosopher and scientist and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov. The novel is set on a distant planet Tormans, many years ago sheltered the Terrans, who left Earth on the brink of disaster. Civilization tormans frozen at the stage of totalitarian "state capitalism", desperate and hopeless. By chance there is a spacecraft with a new Land. Through the clash of two worldviews, the author highlights the many challenges and contradictions of development of human society. This is a kind of dystopia, warning the world about the dangers lurking in the rapid progress of civilization is immoral.