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 andacclaimed novels,yet the only previous English-language edition(Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Sovietauthorities. Now,in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translatorAndrew Bromfield,this landmark novel can be newly appreciated by bothlongtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian sciencefiction masters'astonishingly rich body of work.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781473232440Number of pages: 416Weight: 300 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 30 mm
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