#NewBookDay finally got the old translation of #HardToBeAGod now only 7 left in my old/new translation #NoonUniverse collection. #StrugatskyBrothers #StrugatskiBrothers

last week i grabbed a copy of far rainbow/second invasion from mars by #strugatskybrothers for about $20 with shipping after haggling the guy down from $25 and i still feel like a genius today. :)

whomst out there excited for the new printing of several #strugatsky novels in april next year? looking forward to a new (i think) translation of The Time Wanderers with the most unwieldy title i've ever heard (The Waves Extinguish the Wind... say that three times fast). also stoked to get ahold of Beetle in the Anthill. don't know if that's a new translation or not.
#strugatskybrothers #sovietscifi #scifi #thetimewanderers #beetleintheanthill #theinhabitedisland #thewavesextinguishthewind

whomst out there excited for the new printing of several #strugatsky novels in april next year? looking forward to a new (i think) translation of The Time Wanderers with the most unwieldy title i've ever heard (The Waves Extinguish the Wind... say that three times fast). also stoked to get ahold of Beetle in the Anthill. don't know if that's a new translation or not.
#strugatskybrothers #sovietscifi #scifi #thetimewanderers #beetleintheanthill #theinhabitedisland #thewavesextinguishthewind

#SevenFavouriteAuthors
#SusannaClarke
#UrsulaLeGuin
#DanSimmons
#KurtVonnegut
#HarukiMurakami
#NeilGaiman
#StrugatskyBrothers

“Excerpt 1… the white July heat, the hottest it had been in two hundred years, engulfed the city. The air shimmered over red-hot rooftops. All the windows in the city were flung open, and in the thin shade of wilting trees, old women sweated and melted on benches near courtyard gates.”

“The sun charged past the meridian and sank its claws into the long-suffering bookbindings and the glass and polished wood of the bookcases; hot, angry patches of reflected light quivered on the wallpaper. It was almost time for the afternoon siege, for the furious sun to hang dead still in the sky above the twelve-story house across the street and fire endless rounds of heat into the apartment.”

Definitely Maybe (1974)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

#quote #StrugatskyBrothers #sciencefiction #climatechange #bookstodon

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What are 5-7 of your favorite authors? add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. some of mine:

#JamesTiptreeJr
#UrsulaKLeGuin
#JGBallard
#WilliamGibson
#StanislawLem
#KurtVonnegut
#StrugatskyBrothers

#bookstodon