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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien prod... Read More about Roadside Picnic (Rediscovered Classics #16)

Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century. In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien world... Read More about The Beetle in the Anthill (Rediscovered Classics)

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works.It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to obs... Read More about Hard to Be a God (Rediscovered Classics #19)

The Snail on the Slope is a neglected masterpiece by Russian science fiction greats Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who thought of it as ther "most complete and important work." now, in a stunning translation, this tour de force is ready to be introduced to a new generation of American readers. The nov... Read More about The Snail on the Slope (Rediscovered Classics)

   A neglected masterpiece by Russian science fiction greats Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who thought of it as their “most complete and important work,” The Snail on the Slope disappeared almost immediately after it was first published in a small mass-market edition in the United States in... Read More about The Snail on the Slope (Rediscovered Classics)

The Snail on the Slope takes place in two distinct worlds. One is the Administration, an institution run by a surreal, Kafkaesque bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the forest below. The other is the Forest, a place of fear, weird creatures, primitive people, and violence. Peretz, who works at the A... Read More about The Snail on the Slope