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The Waves Extinguish the Wind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

The Waves Extinguish the Wind

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 Waves Extinguish the Wind provides the epic conclusion to the Noon Universe saga, as eighty-nine-year-old Maxim Kammerer looks back at his most earth-shattering investigation, which brought an entire era of human civilization to an end. Searching for evidence that the mysterious alien Wanderers were interfering in Earth's development, Kammerer and his young trainee Toivo Glumov discovered a deeper and more disturbing secret within humanity itself. This new translation by Daniels Umanovskis joins updated editions of Hard to Be a God, The Inhabited Island, and The Beetle in the Anthill to bring the saga of the Noon Universe to its fitting end: a search for truth and answers in a universe that provides only questions.

Latvijas preses hronika
  • Language: lv
  • Pages: 588

Latvijas preses hronika

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hard To Be A God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Hard To Be A God

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-09
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

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 ...?

Sinopticon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Sinopticon

This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th Century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni. From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City, and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all fans of great fiction. Award winners, bestsellers, screenwriters, playwrights, philosophers, university lecturers and computer programmers, these thirteen writers represent the breadth of Chinese SF, from new to old: Gu Shi, Han Song, Hao Jingfang, Nian Yu, Wang Jinkang, Zhao Haihong, Tang Fei, Ma Boyong, Anna Wu, A Que, Bao Shu, Regina Kanyu Wang and Jiang Bo.

Stm32 Arm Programming for Embedded Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Stm32 Arm Programming for Embedded Systems

This book covers the peripheral programming of the STM32 Arm chip. Throughout this book, we use C language to program the STM32F4xx chip peripherals such as I/O ports, ADCs, Timers, DACs, SPIs, I2Cs and UARTs. We use STM32F446RE NUCLEO Development Board which is based on ARM(R) Cortex(R)-M4 MCU. Volume 1 of this series is dedicated to Arm Assembly Language Programming and Architecture. See our website for other titles in this series: www.MicroDigitalEd.com You can also find the tutorials, source codes, PowerPoints and other support materials for this book on our website.

The Inhabited Island
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

The Inhabited Island

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-15
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet's humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself increasingly entangled in their primitive way of life. After his experiences in their nightmarish military, criminal justice, and mental health systems, Maxim begins to realize that his sojourn on this radioactive and war-scarred world will not be a walk in the park. The Inhabited Island is one of the Strugatsky brothers' most popular and acclaimed novels, yet the only previous English-language edition (Prisoners of Power) was based on a version heavily censored by Soviet authorities. Now, in a sparkling new edition by award-winning translator Andrew Bromfield, this landmark novel can be newly appreciated by both longtime Strugatsky fans and new explorers of the Russian science fiction masters' astonishingly rich body of work.

The Waves Extinguish the Wind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The Waves Extinguish the Wind

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-04-18
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The final novel in the Strugatskys Noon Universe, Waves Extinguish the Wind is told as Maxim Kammerer's final memoir, an exploration trying to find truth and answers in a universe that provides only questions. Kammerer and Toivo Glumov are investigating the secret society of Ludens, who may be humans with extra mental powers or may be a new species entirely. This new translation by Daniels Umanovskis brings the full Noon Universe novels to the Rediscovered Classics line, bringing these Russian masterpieces to a new audience in the United States.

Lame Fate | Ugly Swans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Lame Fate | Ugly Swans

Today, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century, but their relationship with the late-Soviet literary establishment in their home country of Russia was often fraught. Acclaimed during the brief Khrushchev Thaw, the Strugatskys began to fall from grace in the late 1960s as publishers became increasingly reluctant to release their works. The authors' inability to publish, however, diminished neither their productivity nor their popularity among readers. Their novels and short stories, retyped by hand, circulated widely through unofficial channels within the Soviet Union and occasionally turned up abroad in unauthorized translation....

The Ugly Swans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

The Ugly Swans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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One Billion Years to the End of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 115

One Billion Years to the End of the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-06
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin 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? 'On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck' The New York Times