STRUGATSKY BORIS

(P/B) ROADSIDE PICNIC
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths. (From the publisher)...
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ΠΙΚΝΙΚ ΔΙΠΛΑ ΣΤΟ ΔΡΟΜΟ (ΣΤΑΛΚΕΡ)
...Το έργο αφορά τα υπολείμματα μιας επίσκεψης από άλλο κόσμο, τα οποία και αποτελούν θήραμα για διάφορους τυχοδιώκτες, τους επονομαζόμενους κυνηγούς (ένας από αυτούς και το κεντρικό πρόσωπο του βιβλίου, ο Ρέντρικ Σούχαρτ). Τα αντικείμενα αυτά βρίσκονται εντός μιας αποκλεισμένης από τον Ο.Η.Ε. περιοχής, η οποία ονομάζεται Ζώνη Επίσκεψης. Η Ζώνη αποτελεί επίσης πεδίο εκδήλωσης ποικίλων αλλόκοτων περιστατικών, πολύ συχνά ανατριχιαστικών. Οι Στάλκερ (όπως ονομάζονται οι κυνηγοί στο πρωτότυπο), είναι υποχρεωμένοι να ζουν τη ζωή τους κορώνα-γρά...
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(P/B) ONE BILLION YEARS TO THE END OF THE WORLD
This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HARD TO BE A GOD
Another SF Masterwork from the giants of Soviet science fiction, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere with the natural progress of history. His place is to observe rather than interfere - but can he remain aloof in the face of so much cruelty and injustice ...? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE DOOMED CITY
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 g...
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(P/B) THE DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S INN
When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at the remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski, drink brandy, and loaf around in blissful solitude. But he hadn't counted on the other vacationers, an eccentric bunch including a famous hypnotist, a physicist with a penchant for gymnastic feats, a sulky teenager of indeterminate gender, and the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Moses. And as the chalet fills up, strange things start happening - things that seem to indicate the presence o...
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