The Doomed City by Boris Strugatsky; Arkady Strugatsky 2017 Unabridged CD 978153

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Type
Audiobook
ISBN
9781538508770
Publication Year
2017
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
Doomed City
Author
Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Dystopian, Science Fiction / General
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-10
153850877X
ISBN-13
9781538508770
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Publication Year
2017
Topic
Dystopian, Science Fiction / General
Book Title
Doomed City
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Author
Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Format
Compact Disc

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5.7 In.
Item Width
5.2 In.

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The Strugatsky's 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Kafka's Castle , Charles Finney's The Unholy City , Rex Warner's Aerodrome , and a very select handful of others., The historical references are nuanced and poignant. And the conclusions, disturbing and beautiful in equal parts. It's the kind of book that will shake you to your core., Put The Doomed City in the bookcase next to 1984 , Fahrenheit 451 , Ultima Thule , and Ballard's Kingdom Come . If you aren't a sci-fi fan, it fits equally well alongside Animal Farm , Red Harvest , and Catch-22 .
Number of Volumes
15 vols.
Afterword by
Strugatsky, Boris
Dewey Decimal
891.7344
Edition Description
Unabridged edition
Table Of Content
Foreword Part One: The Garbage Collector Part Two: The Investigator Part Three: The Editor Part Four: Mr. Counselor Part Five: Continuity Disrupted Part Six: Conclusion Afterword
Synopsis
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, the one that was their own favorite and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. Having been translated into a host of European languages, it now appears in English for the first time in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield.The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, a city 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 under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable.Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer taken 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 increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, Voronin rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect., Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic , has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, the one that was their own favorite and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. Having been translated into a host of European languages, it now appears in English for the first time in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, a city 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 under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer taken 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 increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, Voronin rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.

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