Noon, 22nd Century
by Arkadiĭ Natanovich Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Boris Natanovich Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Patrick L. MaGuire
Summary (From the publisher):The 22nd Century. Mankind is free from the age-old misery and poverty that have kept it in bondage, free to create a new world, to explore the universe, to confront the mysteries of human existence. Russia's greatest S-F writeres, Arkday and Boris Strugatsky, have produced a futuristic masterpiece of epic proportions and breathtaking vision.Two interplanetary adventurers hurtle through space at a speed faster than light, and are flung a hundred years into the 22nd century. They find themselves on a planet both like and unlike the earth they abandoned so very long ago--and so recently.It is a planet ruled by wisdom, where automated farms feed tens million inhabitants, where a complete system of moving roads brings the farthest outposts into close communion, where an advanced science in mechanization approaches the mysterious complexity of life itself. Here all effort is bound to the exhilarating art if discovery--way below the planet's waters, deep into the endless reaches of space and far beyond the boundless zones of the human mind.Night on MarsAlmost the SameOld-timerThe ConspiratorsChronicleTwo from the TaimyrThe Moving RoadsCornucopiaHomecomingLangour of the SpiritThe AssaultmenDeep SearchThe Mystery of the Hind LegCandles Before the Control BoardNatural Science in the Spirit World ilgrims and WayfarersThe Planet with all the ConveniencesDefeatThe MeetingWhat You Will Be Like
Science Fiction & FantasyScience FictionShort Stories
RELEASED1979
PUBLISHERCollier Books
LENGTH319
LANGUAGEEN
Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky was born in Batumi, Russia. While he was a child, he moved with his family to Leningrad. In 1942, Leningrad was under siege and he left with his father, who did not survive the trip to Vologda. Arkady was later drafted into the Soviet Army, and in 1949 he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow. He worked as a teacher and interpreter for the military until 1955. From 1955 he began to work as an editor and writer. In 1958, he began his lifelong collaboration with his brother Boris.
Noon, 22nd Century
by Arkadiĭ Natanovich Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Boris Natanovich Strugat︠s︡kiĭ, Patrick L. MaGuire
Summary (From the publisher):The 22nd Century. Mankind is free from the age-old misery and poverty that have kept it in bondage, free to create a new world, to explore the universe, to confront the mysteries of human existence. Russia's greatest S-F writeres, Arkday and Boris Strugatsky, have produced a futuristic masterpiece of epic proportions and breathtaking vision.Two interplanetary adventurers hurtle through space at a speed faster than light, and are flung a hundred years into the 22nd century. They find themselves on a planet both like and unlike the earth they abandoned so very long ago--and so recently.It is a planet ruled by wisdom, where automated farms feed tens million inhabitants, where a complete system of moving roads brings the farthest outposts into close communion, where an advanced science in mechanization approaches the mysterious complexity of life itself. Here all effort is bound to the exhilarating art if discovery--way below the planet's waters, deep into the endless reaches of space and far beyond the boundless zones of the human mind.Night on MarsAlmost the SameOld-timerThe ConspiratorsChronicleTwo from the TaimyrThe Moving RoadsCornucopiaHomecomingLangour of the SpiritThe AssaultmenDeep SearchThe Mystery of the Hind LegCandles Before the Control BoardNatural Science in the Spirit World ilgrims and WayfarersThe Planet with all the ConveniencesDefeatThe MeetingWhat You Will Be Like
Science Fiction & FantasyScience FictionShort Stories
RELEASED1979
PUBLISHERCollier Books
LENGTH319
LANGUAGEEN
Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky was born in Batumi, Russia. While he was a child, he moved with his family to Leningrad. In 1942, Leningrad was under siege and he left with his father, who did not survive the trip to Vologda. Arkady was later drafted into the Soviet Army, and in 1949 he graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow. He worked as a teacher and interpreter for the military until 1955. From 1955 he began to work as an editor and writer. In 1958, he began his lifelong collaboration with his brother Boris.
