The story became a cult text for an entire generation of young Soviet engineers. In the late period of his work, Savchenko focused on the biological side of the phenomenon of the Übermensch, as can be seen in the story "Confused" (1983). Also widely known is the novel Over the Pass (1984), which explored the Communist future of Earth. On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, he was found dead in his apartment in Kyiv. Since 2005, the International Assembly of Fantastic Literature Authors, which convenes every year in Kyiv under the name "Portal," has awarded a prize in Savchenko's name called "Self-Discovery" to works which shows a writer's qualitative growth. Literary Awards Prize at the Detgiz RSFSR contest for the novel Black Stars (1960, Moscow) "Chumatskii Way" prize for the story "The Kidnappers' Essences" (1989, Kyiv) "Great Circle" award for the novel Position in the Universe (1994) "Philosopher's Stone Award" (2002, "Golden Bridge" Fourth Festival of the Fantastic in Charkov, Ukraine) "Aelita" award for contribution to Russian-language fiction (2003) List of Works Novels Black Stars (1956) Second Expedition to the Strange Planet (1959) Self-Discovery (1967) Dead End (1972) Meeters () (1980) The Success Algorithm (1983) Over the Pass (1984) The Kidnappers' Essence (1988) Position in the Universe (1992) A Time of Great Negations (2002) Expository Technical Writing Semiconductors at Launch (1958) Technology and Properties of Microelectronic Diode Rays (1965) "Sixteen new formulas of physics and cosmology. Universal correlation Field Activity (U-field), manifesting itself as universal communication variables and phenomena" (1992) Available Publications in English Self-Discovery. New York, McMillan, 1979. Success Algorithm in New Soviet Science Fiction. New York, Collier Books, 1980. (hardcover) and (paperback) Mixed Up in Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction. Montpelier, VT, RIS Publications, 2015. References External links 1933 births 2005 deaths Electronics engineers Writers from Kyiv Ukrainian science fiction writers Soviet science fiction writers Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Engineers from Kyiv