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Monday Starts on Saturday

Arkady Strugatsky author Boris Strugatsky author Andrew Bromfield translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:11th Aug '16

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

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?

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

ISBN: 9781473202214

Dimensions: 130mm x 200mm x 20mm

Weight: 240g

256 pages