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Science fiction. I et utopisk ferieparadis søger en sovjetisk kosmonaut, nu agent for FN, efter kilden til en ny type narkotika. Alt er idyl, men under overfladen arbejder destruktive kræfter.Tags
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Disappointing. It's an OK philosophical "what if" story about what can happen when people basically have all their needs met that should have been just a novelette. That story doesn't really start until halfway through the book. Until then this is one of those stranger on an unspecified mission interacting with various odd and cryptic bureaucrats in a generic eastern European country. Slightly amusing but frustrating after the first couple chapters. The latter half finally brings things together, but it's still too didactic for its own good.
Only for Strugatsky completists.
Only for Strugatsky completists.
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287+ Works 11,980 Members
Popular science-fiction writers, the Strugatsky brothers have used the genre since the 1960s to comment on contemporary society, at times provoking major controversy. It's Hard to Be a God (1964) is a dysutopia with commentary on historical theories. The Snail on the Slope (1966--68) features a KGB-like organization and an extraordinarily show more oppressive atmosphere. Pre-glasnost, glasnost, some of the Strugatskys' major works had to be circulated in samizdat, but the brothers' situation is now dramatically better. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Final Circle of Paradise
- Original title
- Хищные вещи века
- Original publication date
- 1968 (English edition) (English edition); 1965
- First words
- The customs inspector had a round smooth face which registered the most benevolent of attitudes.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And when they stopped permitting it, I would break them...
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.7 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages
- LCC
- PG3476 .S78835 .K5413 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1917-1960
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- Languages
- 7 — Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Russian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
