'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin\nThis mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something?\n'On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck' The New York Times

One Billion Years to the End of the World: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (Penguin Science Fiction)

Humor & Entertainment

Strugatsky, Arkady

Strugatsky, Boris

Humor

Penguin Classics

The Time Wanderers

When space explorers encounter an unexpected civilization, Max Kammerer, an agent of COMCON 2 sends Toiva Glumov to investigate the possibility of time crossovers

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

St Martins Pr

The Snail on the Slope (Rediscovered Classics)

A neglected masterpiece by Russian science fiction greats Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who thought of it as their “most complete and important work,” The Snail on the Slope disappeared almost immediately after it was first published in a small mass-market edition in the United States in 1980. In the meantime, however, it went through twenty-seven editions in fifteen other countries, making it one of the Strugatsky brothers’ most popular works worldwide, along with Roadside Picnic and Hard to Be a God. Now, in a stunning new translation, this tour de force is ready to be introduced to a new generation of American readers. The novel takes place in two 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 but garrulous people, and violence. Peretz, who works at the Administration, wants to visit the forest. Candide crashed in the forest years ago and wants to return to the Administration. Their journeys are surprising and bizarre, and readers are left to puzzle out the mysteries of these foreign environments. Brilliant, enigmatic, evocative, and revelatory, The Snail on the Slope is one of the greatest literary works to come out of Soviet Russia.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Chicago Review Press

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 of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park.\nThe Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this landmark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work.

The Inhabited Island

Gateway

Shedevr brat'ev Strugackih. Zhjostkaja, beskonechno uvlekatel'naja i v to zhe vremja beskonechno filosofskaja kniga. Vremja idjot… No istorija zagadochnoj Zony i luchshego iz ejo stalkerov — Rjeda Shuharta — po-prezhnemu trevozhit i budorazhit chitatelja. Zaholustnyj gorodok Harmont, zaterjannyj gde-to na prostorah Kanady, mesto, v kotorom nikogda nichego interesnogo ne proishodit, vnezapno okazyvaetsja odnoj iz "zon Poseshhenija" - stolknovenija zemljan s zagadochnoj civilizaciej. Ljudjam ne udaetsja uvidet' samih prishel'cev - oni udaljajutsja tak zhe vnezapno, kak i pojavilis', ostaviv v Zone mnozhestvo udivitel'nyh predmetov i javlenij, strannyh, neob#jasnimyh i chashhe vsego gubitel'nyh. Sjuzhet «Piknik na obochine» razvorachivaetsja na Zemle cherez tridcat' let posle prileta neizvestnyh prishel'cev. Nekotorye uchenye delajut ostroumnoe predpolozhenie o celi inoplanetnogo vizita - mol, jeto byl nekij piknichok na obochine mezhgalakticheskih trass. Vse ostatki "musora", kotoryj ostavili prishel'cy, stanovjatsja predmetom ohoty i poiskov, issledovanij i neschastij. Soderjit illustrazii.

Piknik na obochine (Russian Edition)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Za milliard let do konca sveta". Kniga, polozhennaja v osnovu genial'nogo fil'ma A. Sokurova "Dni zatmenija". Odnako povest' brat'ev Strugackih, po motivam kotoroj byl postavlen fil'm, jarko i razitel'no otlichaetsja ot nego v sjuzhetnom otnoshenii. Ne pritcha - no klassicheskaja fantastika, umnaja, sil'naja i uvlekatel'naja! Predstav'te sebe, chto v vashu razmerennuju zhizn' vtorgaetsja vdrug strashnaja, nepreodolimaja vneshnjaja sila i nachinaet diktovat' svoi uslovija. A chtoby izbavit'sja ot nejo, nuzhno vsego nichego — izmenit' samomu sebe, naprimer, otkazat'sja ot ljubimoj raboty… Raznye geroi po-raznomu reshajut jetu problemu.

Za Milliard Let Do Konca Sveta (Russian Edition)

A hilarious spoof on the classic country-house murder mystery, from the Russian masters of sci-fi—never before translated When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at the remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He’s there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn’t counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch including a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, a sulky teenager of indeterminate gender, and the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Moses. And as the chalet fills up, strange things start happening—things that seem to indicate the presence of another, unseen guest. Is there a ghost on the premises? A prankster? Something more sinister? And then an avalanche blocks the mountain pass, and they’re stuck. Which is just about when they find the corpse. Meaning that Glebksy’s vacation is over and he’s embarked on the most unusual investigation he’s ever been involved with. In fact, the further he looks into it, the more Glebsky realizes that the victim may not even be human. In this late novel from the legendary Russian sci-fi duo—here in its first-ever English translation—the Strugatskys gleefully upend the plot of many a Hercule Poirot mystery—and the result is much funnier, and much stranger, than anything Agatha Christie ever wrote.

The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre (Neversink)

Melville House

The Doomed City (Rediscovered Classics)

The magnum opus of Russia’s greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of European languages, and now appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets 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, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City “was genuinely delightful and fascinating work.” Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.

<div> 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&nbsp;Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park.&nbsp; The Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this land-mark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work. </div>

The Snail on the Slope is a neglected masterpiece by Russian science fiction greats Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who thought of it as ther "most complete and important work." now, in a stunning translation, this tour de force is ready to be introduced to a new generation of American readers. The novel takes place in two 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 but garrulous people, and violence. Peretz, who works at the Administration, wants to visit the Forest. Candide crashed in the Forest years ago and wants to return to the Administration. Their journeys are surprising and bizarre, and readers are left to puzzle out the mysteries of these foreign environments. Brilliant, enigmatic, and revelatory, The Snail on the Slope is one of the greatest literary works to come out of Soviet Russia.

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One Billion Years to the End of the World: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (Penguin Science Fiction)

The Time Wanderers

The Snail on the Slope (Rediscovered Classics)

The Inhabited Island

Piknik na obochine (Russian Edition)

Za Milliard Let Do Konca Sveta (Russian Edition)

The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre (Neversink)

The Doomed City (Rediscovered Classics)

The Inhabited Island

The Snail on the Slope (Rediscovered Classics)