The Doomed City
$29.55
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2017
Summary
The Doomed City: A Novel of Existential Experimentation
A mysterious city exists, its sun artificially controlled, bordered by an abyss and an insurmountable wall. Within, inhabitants are drawn from across 20th-century history, left to govern themselves under the watchful eyes of enigmatic Mentors. This is the Experiment.
Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer from 1950s Leningrad, fervently believes in the Experiment, despite his humble beginnings as a garbage collector. As the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473222281 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473222281 |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Author: | Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 330g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 168mm x 32mm |
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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 FictionAbout The Author
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 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.
Boris 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.
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