Statues that are actually aliens that move very slowly

[hitmouse]

It is Desert Encounter by I. Rosokhvatsky.

Other names: "Aliens from another time", "Newcomers from the next hour", "Meeting in time", "Meeting in the desert".

First published in 1961 (ukrainian version).

Plot


"Movement" part:


Full story (russian)

That is a nice illustration. Who is the artist?

 

[Orcadian]

I find myself wanting to read this story, and others by Rosokhvatsky. I managed to find audio versions of some (possibly all) of his work on Internet Archive. Росоховатский Игорь - Повести : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Trouble is, they are all in Russian! I wrote to the uploader - who has an English name - but the email bounced, alas. (Addendum. Without English story titles, we have no way of knowing if this is the same Igor Rosokhvatsky! For all I know the name is like John Smith.)

There's a German-language webpage giving a bio of Rosokhvatsky, who appears to have been a highly-intelligent and interesting guy. He was born in Ukraine when it was part of the USSR and was a science journalist by trade. He only died in 2015.

According to Summary Bibliography: Игорь Росоховатский, he wrote Desert Encounter (akb other names) in 1961.

 

[Ravensquawk]

I find myself wanting to read this story, and others by Rosokhvatsky. I managed to find audio versions of some (possibly all) of his work on Internet Archive. Росоховатский Игорь - Повести : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Trouble is, they are all in Russian! I wrote to the uploader - who has an English name - but the email bounced, alas. (Addendum. Without English story titles, we have no way of knowing if this is the same Igor Rosokhvatsky! For all I know the name is like John Smith.)

There's a German-language webpage giving a bio of Rosokhvatsky, who appears to have been a highly-intelligent and interesting guy. He was born in Ukraine when it was part of the USSR and was a science journalist by trade. He only died in 2015.

According to Summary Bibliography: Игорь Росоховатский, he wrote Desert Encounter (akb other names) in 1961.

He was impressive! Yay for translating sites. I see that the Russian biographies also have one for Isaac Asimov -- most appropriate, since Russia started with him but the USA got to keep him.

I'm still searching for audio files and SRA card stories and bibliographies. Just didn't wanna log in every day to say, "Nope, nuthin' yet."

And I'm all for learning new languages, but the four Cyrillic letters I learned wouldn't help me listen to someone talk.

However! Since I followed a developer and manufacturer of translating headphones and earbuds a decade ago, wow, searching for them now shows that a bunch of them are out there.
Why haven't we heard more about them?
Since they're computers generating verbal audio anyway, wouldn't they work with a computer generating verbal audio?

The Internet Archive story is only 8 pages long, but still, searching for more. It took one questioner since asking in 2014 for anyone to find even that. It's a frustrating and mostly fruitless search, but ad astra and all that.

 

[yaros7av]

That is a nice illustration. Who is the artist?

I just found it in the internet, using google search "встреча в пустыне". I think it was image from the book cover.
For instance in È.Ðîñîõîâàòñêèé. Âñòðå÷à â ïóñòûíå image contains text "Цена 20коп." (Price: 20 kopecks), so in that case it is definitely book cover.
Also there is a small stamp, telling us that book was borrowed from some library.

Update: as of Архив фантастики it seems that artist name is Konstantin Arceulov (Работы художника К. Арцеулова)

Встреча в пустыне: [Научно-фантастический рассказ] Послесл. И. Косинюка; Рис. К. Арцеулова // Техника – молодежи, 1961, №3 – с.25-27, 4 стр. обл.