Gennady Gor (1907–1981) was a renowned Leningrad science fiction writer, known for his popular science essays and youth novels filled with a unique lyricism and a touching openness to the mysteries of human existence.

Gennady Gor was an original Soviet prose writer of the 1930s, who wrote extensively about the small ethnic groups of Russia. He was a subtle stylist, exploring the paradoxes of the Sovietization of Siberia and the Far East in his stories and novellas.

Gennady Gor was one of the early Soviet disciples of the Leningrad modernism of the 1920s. His prose reflects the explorations of such recognized masters of literary experimentation as Konstantin Vaginov, Leonid Dobychin, and Daniil Kharms.

Gennady Gor was the author of brutally candid poems, one of the most terrifying and captivating texts of the besieged Leningrad: a cycle written "for the drawer" between 1942 and 1944, which remained hidden during the author's lifetime.

Over half a century, Gor was repeatedly forced to change the trajectory of his literary path, leaving different impressions on different generations of readers. However, posthumously, he managed to literally transform his literary biography.