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The Doomed City
Arkady Strugatsky
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Description for The Doomed City
Paperback. From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIDE PICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika came to the USSR. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
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, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. This is life in the Experiment. 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 ... Read more
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, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. This is life in the Experiment. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Series
S.F. Masterworks
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473222281
SKU
9781473222281
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Ref
99-1
About Arkady Strugatsky
Arkady Strugatsky (Author) Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991) and Boris Strugatsky (1931-2012) Arkady and Boris Strugatsky began to collaborate in the early 1950s after Arkady had studied English and Japanese and worked as a technical translator and editor, and Boris was a computer mathematician at Pulkova astronomical observatory. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes them ... Read more
Reviews for The Doomed City
This publication of The Doomed City reveals the Strugatskys' great lost masterwork, an allegorical nightmare metropolis fit for the special atlas that gives home to Kafka's Castle, Charles Finney's The Unholy City, Rex Warner's Aerodrome, and a very select handful of others. The best Soviet SF writers - Encyclopedia of Science Fiction