6/27/2023 0 Comments Boris strugatsky![]() This was supposedly one of the "final" wars before universal disarmament, where the last of the fascists were finally defeated. ![]() A few years before, Zhilin fought as part of an international brigade to put down a Fascist uprising in the same city where this story is set, reminiscent of the Soviet experience during the Second World War. In the intervening time, he has been working for the security service of the World Council, an international governing body similar to but far more powerful than the United Nations. The Final Circle of Paradise takes place a little less than ten years after Space Apprentice, in a medium-sized seaside resort city somewhere in Europe. At the end of Space Apprentice, flight engineer Ivan Zhilin gives up space travel for Earth – where "the most important things are" – to make the solar system a better place for the young people of the world. ![]() This novel is a sequel of sorts to an earlier Strugatsky novel Space Apprentice (1962). This is a line from Andrei Voznesensky's poem Beatnik's Monologue. ![]() The literal English translation of the original Russian title is "Predatory Things of Our Times". It was first published in the USSR in 1965 and the first English edition, translated by Leonid Renen, was published by DAW books in 1976. The Final Circle of Paradise (Russian: Хищные вещи века, romanized: Khishnye veshi veka, lit.'Predatory Things of the Century') is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. ![]()
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