{"product_id":"the-doomed-city-volume-25-paperback","title":"The Doomed City: Volume 25 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArkady Strugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBoris Strugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Bromfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe magnum opus of Russia's greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, \u003ci\u003eRoadside Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, that was their own favorite, and that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. \u003ci\u003eThe Doomed City\u003c\/i\u003e 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. It was translated into a host of European languages, and now appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Doomed City\u003c\/i\u003e 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 a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing \u003ci\u003eThe Doomed City\u003c\/i\u003e \"was genuinely delightful and fascinating work.\" Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArkady\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBoris\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eStrugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e were famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, with more than twenty-five novels and novellas to their names, including \u003ci\u003eThe Doomed City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Inhabited Island\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRoadside Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e. Their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films. \u003cb\u003eAndrew Bromfield\u003c\/b\u003e has translated into English works by Victor Pelevin, Boris Akunin, Sergei Lukyanenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Daniil Kharms, Leo Tolstoy, and the Strugatsky brothers. \u003cb\u003eDmitry Glukhovsky\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMetro 2033\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770653475104,"sku":"9781613749937","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cdbc4fe95694c663243ef81dcbb74dab.webp?v=1780376451","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-doomed-city-volume-25-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}