The Inhabited Island - The Strugatsky brothers, Andrew Bromfield (trans.)
Edition Decree: Solid Honors Done to Middling Work of Authors (review copy from publisher) Censored, obstructed Soviet tomes can be hard to come by--you have an author you love, and you know there are books left to read... but they haven't been translated, or translated in full. The sorrow!... So it was great news to hear of this Strugatsky book released in new, uncut form. This edition is more extensive than other editions by page number, although it was hard for me to discern what all didn't make it through the censors. The afterword denotes certain changes. The story itself is not my favorite Strugatsky-- I think "Dead Mountaineer's Inn" is their tightest, most atmospheric, profound, and entertaining read. Even "Roadside Picnic" did not become a book I would reread almost annually like Dead Mountaineer... and perhaps that will be the case with "The Inhabited Island". It is an adventure story, told with great Strugatsky effect: A f...