The Doomed City

Name: The Doomed City
Brand: Orion Publishing Co
SKU: 9781473222281
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By (author): Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky

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 the city is as a garbage collector. As increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.

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Weight: 330g
Dimensions: 168 x 197mm
Publication Date: 27 Jul 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781473222281

About Arkady StrugatskyBoris 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 as 'the best Soviet SF writers' and works such as Hard to be a God Definitely Maybe The Snail on the Slope and Monday Begins on Saturday are powerful and poignant novels that continue to amaze and move readers. Andrei Tarkovsky's much admired film Stalker was based on their most famous work Roadside Picnic.Read more at http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strugatski_arkadyBoris 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 as 'the best Soviet SF writers' and works such as Hard to be a God Definitely Maybe The Snail on the Slope and Monday Begins on Saturday are powerful and poignant novels that continue to amaze and move readers. Andrei Tarkovsky's much admired film Stalker was based on their most famous work Roadside Picnic.