This man wrote a short story in which an engineer tries to invent ultralight so he can blow up the world's mountains to allow tropical air to circulate the planet.
This man wrote a short story in which an engineer tries to invent ultralight so he can blow up the world's mountains to allow tropical air to circulate the planet. He wrote the story Satan of Thought and an unfinished novel in which an orphaned girl trains to be a parachuter, but lights a cigarette while descending which sets the parachute on fire. He told of a train engineer who loses his sight in a crash but demands to keep driving trains in the story The Fierce and Beautiful World. He described a town where the inhabitants make wooden frying pans, and home to a man known as the Jap. He wrote a novel in which horses are collectivized and start making decisions as a group, and  Chiklin works on a project which Voshchev travels to at the start of the novel; the title project was a home for the proletariat that never got off the ground. FTP, name this author of Chevengur and The Foundation Pit.
This man wrote a short story in which an engineer tries to invent ultralight so he can blow up the world's mountains to allow tropical air to circulate the planet.
Andrei Platonov [or Andrei Platonovich Klimentov]