death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date period genre debut_works article_title name occupation
bucharest february 9 , 2010 sulina , romania romanian 27 october 1941 1963 -- 2010 science fiction '' constellations from the waters '' romulus bărbulescu
 romulus bărbulescu short story writer , novelist , translator
romulus bărbulescu

romulus bărbulescu -lrb- october 27 , 1925 , sulina -- february 9 , 2010 , bucharest -rrb- was a romanian science-fiction writer .
in 1963 , bărbulescu published `` constellations from the waters , '' the first of 10 science fiction novels that established him and his co-author , george anania , as pioneers of the genre in romania .
they drew their inspiration from russian writers like ivan efremov or arkady and boris strugatsky , or the polish author stanislaw lem .
in a communist society where criticizing current social norms was forbidden , alternative reality was good metaphor , and even better , safe .
in the 1980s , the government of romanian president nicolae ceaușescu took control of anania and bărbulescu 's fan clubs to monitor discussions on utopian societies and social justice .
