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Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady Strugatsky

Monday Starts on Saturday By Arkady Strugatsky

Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky


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Summary

A brilliant and incisive satire of the Soviet pseudo-science research of the Cold War, with a new introduction by Adam Roberts.

Monday Starts on Saturday Summary

Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky

When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, where research into magic is serious business.

And where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be far behind?

Monday Starts on Saturday Reviews

The best Soviet SF writers - THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION

Folktale motifs are masterfully updated to embody in a dark picaresque the black and white Magic of modern alienated science and society - Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

About Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991) and Boris Strugatsky (1931-2012)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky began to collaborate in the early 1950s after Arkady had studied English and Japanese and worked as a technical translator and editor, and Boris was a computer mathematician at Pulkova astronomical observatory. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes them as 'the best Soviet SF writers' and works such as Hard to be a God, Definitely Maybe, The Snail on the Slope and Monday Begins on Saturday are powerful and poignant novels that continue to amaze and move readers. Andrei Tarkovsky's much admired film, Stalker, was based on their most famous work, Roadside Picnic.

Read more at http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strugatski_arkady

Additional information

GOR008789345
9781473202214
1473202213
Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
2016-08-11
256
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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