The Doomed City Audiobook (Free)

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the best of Russian science fiction experts, yet the book they worked hardest in, one that was their very own favorite which readers world-wide have acclaimed their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatskys kept its living a secret even off their closest close friends for sixteen years. It had been only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last about The Doomed City of their functions to see publication.The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on each day and off during the night, a city bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall for the other. Its inhabitants are people plucked from twentieth-century background at various situations and places and left to govern themselves under conditions set up by Mentors whose purpose appears inscrutable.Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer taken from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Test, even though his first work in the town is really as a garbage collector. As significantly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, Voronin increases through the politics hierarchy, with devastating effect.