Hard to be a God (S.F. Masterworks)

Reading Group More Books Other books by Olena Bormashenko Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky To find more items like this one, go to: fiction Hard To Be A God: SF Masterworks Author Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. Olena Bormashenko, trans. Ken MacLeod, intro. Publisher Gollancz Format paperback Product Dimensions 7.75 x 5 x 0.75 inches ISBN 9781473208292 Pages/Publication Date 246/2014 Daedalus Item Code 70446 List Price: Import Sale Price: $5.98 Qty 1 Submit New Arrivals Description 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 their natural progress of development. His place is to observe rather than interfere-but can he remain aloof in the face of so much cruelty and injustice? Soviet Russian writers 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 such works as Definitely Maybe, The Snail on the Slope, and Monday Begins on Saturday are powerful and poignant novels that continue to amaze and move readers.