Boris Strugat͡skiĭ
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty," something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend...
Author
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Chelovechestvo stolknulosʹ s chrezvychaĭnymi obstoi͡atelʹstvami globalʹnogo masshtaba. Posle poseshchenii͡a Zemli prishelʹt͡sami na planete obrazovalisʹ Zony. V ėti mesta, gde proiskhodi͡at neponi͡atnye veshchi i obnaruzhivai͡utsi͡a strannye, smertelʹno opasnye predmety, kazhdyĭ raz riskui͡a zhiznʹi͡u, pronikai͡ut stalkery i tashchat ottuda vse, chto im udaetsi͡a naĭti. Odnako obshchestvo ne gotovo k "podarkam" prishelʹt͡sev....
13) The doomed city
Author
Publisher
Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets 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. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is...