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      The Doomed City

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      From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIDE PICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika came to the USSR.

      It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an ...

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      Product ID:9781473222281
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Series:S.F. Masterworks
      Title:The Doomed City
      Authors:Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
      Page Count:480
      Subjects:Science fiction, Science fiction
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      From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIDE PICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika came to the USSR.

      It is a mysterious city whose sun is 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. This is life in the Experiment.

      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. As increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.


      Imprint Name:Gateway
      Publisher Name:Orion Publishing Co
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2017-07-27

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      Weight334 g
      Dimensions128 × 197 × 33 mm