Beetle in the Anthill
by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Kammerer trilogy (2), Noon Universe, Chronological (9), Noon Universe (9)
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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 worlds. But as the authors became increasingly disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, their Noon Universe stories grew darker and more complex as well.The Beetle in the Anthill reintroduces Maxim show more Kammerer, the main character of their novel The Inhabited Island. Once an intrepid young space explorer, Kammerer is now an investigator with COMCON-2, the covert agency in charge of countering threats to the homeworld. He is tasked with tracking "progressor" Lev Abalkin, who has returned to Earth after a routine mission went tragically wrong. Do the secrets of Abalkin's past pose a grave danger to humanity--or is he an innocent caught up in a deadly misunderstanding?This new edition by lauded translator Olena Bormashenko joins updated translations of Hard to Be a God, The Inhabited Island, and The Waves Extinguish the Wind to continue the ever-deepening saga of the Noon Universe. show lessTags
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In the second book of the Kammerer trilogy, Kammeres pursues a collegue of his who behave very strange. Of course it's not as simple as that and in the background a major conspiration begins to unveil.....
Tak naprawdę to Strugaccy mogli sobie darować pierwsze rozdziały, właściwie to większość rozdziałów tej powieści, które do fabuły niewiele wnoszą oprócz tajemnicy. Od początku nie jest jasne o co autorom chodzi i w pewnym momencie sam byłem zmęczony tym ciągłym ganianiem Maksyma. Niby akcja rozgrywa się w ciągu kilku dni, mnie wydawało się, że mijają lata… Akcja przyspiesza na końcu i dopiero tu dowiadujemy się o co tak naprawdę chodziło Strugackim. Co zrobić z niebezpieczną dla ogółu ideą/człowiekiem, kto i czy powinien decydować o tym czy coś/ktoś jest niebezpieczne.
Podsumowując, przekaz jakiś jest, koncepcja fabuły też, wykonanie kiepskie. Czy polecam? Nie bardzo.
Podsumowując, przekaz jakiś jest, koncepcja fabuły też, wykonanie kiepskie. Czy polecam? Nie bardzo.
Apr 15, 2021Polish
Maxim Krammerer je pověřen Admirálem, aby vypátral progresora, který se neohlásil při vstupu na Zemi. Jde o úkol nejvyšší priority a nejpřísnějšího utajení. Při pročítání rukou psaných dokumentů zjišťuje Maxim, že případ je mnohem složitější, než by se na první pohled mohlo zdát. Proč takové utajení? A co všechno Admirál neřekl?
Feb 14, 2022Czech
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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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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
- Beetle in the Anthill
- Original title
- Жук в муравейнике
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- Maxim Kammerer
- Epigraph*
- Ptaki, zwierzaki
pod drzwiami stały
jak do nich strzelano
to umierały
(dziecinna wyliczanka) - First words*
- O 13.17 Ekscelencja wezwał mnie do siebie. Oczu na mnie nie podniósł, tak że widziałem tylko łysą czaszkę pokrytą bladymi starczymi piegami - oznaczało to wysoki stopień zatroskania i niezadowolenia. Nie moimi spra... (show all)wami, zresztą.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I wtedy Maja Głumowa zaczęła krzyczeć.
- Original language
- La rusa
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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- 891.73 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction
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- PG3476 .S78835 .Z4913 — 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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