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“The Rattler” by Leonid Kaganov (translated by Alex Shvartsman)
Leonid Kaganov is from St. Petersburg, Russia. He is a scriptwriter and multiple award-winning author of ten novels and short story collections. His fiction has been translated and published in France, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and Estonia. His fiction has been published in English in Clarkesworld. In Leonid’s first story for Asimov’s, humanity confronts a terrifying alien.
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Спасибо, Alex Shvartsman!