Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those misfits who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his mutant daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that he makes his last tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile territory.
Boris Natanovich Strugatsky Livres
Arkady et Boris Strugatsky étaient des auteurs soviétiques et russes de science-fiction qui ont collaboré pendant la majeure partie de leurs carrières. Leurs œuvres abordent souvent de profondes questions philosophiques et des commentaires sociaux, se déroulant dans des décors futuristes ou dystopiques. Les frères ont exploré la nature de la liberté humaine, de la moralité et du progrès sociétal à travers des récits captivants et des personnages complexes. Leur style distinctif et leur profondeur intellectuelle en font des figures importantes du genre de la science-fiction.
The Doomed City
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
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.
В очередной том собрания сочинений мэтров отечественной и мировой фантастики Аркадия и Бориса Стругацких вошли произведения, повествующие о мире будущего и тех неразрешимых нравственных проблемах, которые могут возникнуть на новых этапах развития человечества.
Die bewohnte Insel, ein Planet unseres Milchstrassensystems, wird von einer anonymen Gruppe von Tyrannen, den Unbekannten Vätern, regiert - und zwar mit Hilfe der modernsten technischen Einrichtungen. Hinter den Türmen der ballistischen Raketenabwehr verbergen sich Strahlensender, die die Bevölkerung zielstrebig nach Belieben programmieren und manipulieren, um fantastische Verteidiger des Systems aus ihnen zu machen. (Buchdeckel verso).