Description
When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park.
The Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this land-mark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work.Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 02/04/2020
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781613735978
ISBN10: 1613735979
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Hard Science Fiction
About the Author
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky were famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, with more than twenty-five novels and novellas to their names, including The Doomed City, Hard to Be a God, Monday Starts on Saturday, The Snail on the Slope, and Roadside Picnic. Their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films.