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Title The doomed city / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ; translated by Andrew Bromfield
Imprint London : Gollancz, 2017

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Mediehotell  Fantastik engelska    DUE 24-04-24  ---
Descript xiii, 462 pages ; 20 cm
Series SF masterworks
SF masterworks
Note Foreword by Dmitry Glukhovsky -- The garbage collector -- The investigator -- The editor -- Mr. Counselor -- Continuity disrupted -- Conclusion -- Afterword by Boris Strugatsky
"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 a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect"-- provided by publisher
Foreword copyright Dmitry Glukhovsky 2016. Afterword copyright Boris Strugatsky 2001
Translated from the Russian
Subject Cities and towns -- Experiments -- Fiction
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Romaner
Classmark 891.73/44
Alt Auth Strugatskij, Boris, 1933-2012
Bromfield, Andrew, translator
ISBN/ISSN 1473222281
9781473222281
9781473222298 (ePub ebook)
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