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Alexander Nikolayevich Gromov () is a Russian science fiction writer, who began writing in 1986 and was first published in the early 1990s.
His work is influenced by that of the Strugatsky brothers, and he has stated a preference for the social science fiction genre. He writes primarily in his native Russian language.
Gromov lives in Moscow, and is an amateur astronomer The plot involves the transition of a nation in peaceful harmony with the natural world on a distant planet, to a phase of industrial dictatorship created to defend against outer aggression.
"Saint Vitus' Minuet"
St. Vitus' Minuet (), published in 1997, is a novella which deals with an emerging society on an unexplored planet, and the psychological aspects of survival. Saint Vitus' Minuet won a Fancon Award in 1997.