Set in a different solar system, Far Rainbow raises serious questions concerning scientists' responsibility for their works

Far Rainbow: The Second Invasion from Mars (English and Russian Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Strugatsky, Arkady

Science Fiction

Macmillan Pub. Co.

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 market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths.

Roadside Picnic (Penguin science fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

'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, 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

St Martins Pr

Stephen W. Potts presents Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in terms of their dual contributions to the SF genre and to modern Russian literature, placing their work in both its historical and literary context.

The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers (Milford Series)

Potts, Stephen W.

History & Criticism

Borgo Press

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.

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)

In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe! Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intellectually provocative and riotously funny, full of boldly imagined scenarios and veiled—but clear—social criticism. Which may be why Definitely Maybe has never before been available in an uncensored edition, let alone in English. It tells the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov, who has sent his wife and son off to her mother’s house in Odessa so that he can work, free from distractions, on the project he’s sure will win him the Nobel Prize. But he’d have an easier time making progress if he wasn’t being interrupted all the time: First, it’s the unexpected delivery of a crate of vodka and caviar. Then a beautiful young woman in an unnervingly short skirt shows up at his door. Then several of his friends—also scientists—drop by, saying they all felt they were on the verge of a major discovery when they got . . . distracted . . . Is there an ominous force that doesn’t want knowledge to progress? Or could it be something more . . . natural? In this nail-bitingly suspenseful book, the Strugatsky brothers bravely and brilliantly question authority: an authority that starts with crates of vodka, but has lightning bolts in store for humans who refuse to be cowed.

Definitely Maybe (Neversink)

Boris, Strugatsky

Melville House

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