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Hard To Be A God by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere with the natural progress of history. His place is to ...Show more
Lame Fate (Ugly Swans) by Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky (Afterword by); Maya Vinokour (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century, but their relationship with the late-Soviet literary establishment was often fraught. By the late 1960s, publishers had become increasingly reluctant to release their works, bu ...Show more
Monday Starts On Saturday by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When young programmer Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry, where research into magic is serious business. Where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be ...Show more
One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery - a Nobel Prize-worthy break though. Yet, home alone in his Leningrad apartment, his work is beginning to be stymied. Strange and improbable distractions are mounting around him - and he is not alone. Across the city, his scientific ...Show more
Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Category: Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film Stalker Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysteriou ...Show more
Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black ...Show more
The Beetle in the Anthill by Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky (Afterword by); Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century. In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. ...Show more
The Doomed City by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: S.f. Masterworks
It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advi ...Show more
The Inhabited Island by Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky; Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way ...Show more
The Snail on the Slope by Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky (Afterword by); Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
The Snail on the Slope takes place in two distinct worlds. One is the Administration, an institution run by a surreal, Kafkaesque bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the forest below. The other is the Forest, a place of fear, weird creatures, primitive people, and violence. Peretz, who works at the Admin ...Show more
The Snail on the Slope by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FOREST Candide ...Show more
The Waves Extinguish the Wind by Boris Strugatsky (Afterword by); Arkady Strugatsky; Daniels Umanovskis (Translator)
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century. In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. ...Show more
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