[1] Savchenko, who wrote in Russian as well as in his native Ukrainian language[citation needed], published his first short stories in the late 1950s, and his first novel (Black Stars) in 1960.
Savchenko positioned himself as an adherent of the cybernetic view of society and the living organism, consistently developing different aspects of the process of self-discovery.
In 1973, the twenty five-volume collection Library of Contemporary Fantastic Literature was published under the name Anthology, in which an abbreviated version of Savchenko's programmatic story "The Trial of Truth" appeared.
The collection included the best publications of the largest and most popular science fiction authors of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and France.
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.