Boris Strugatskiy

일군의 과학자들이 알카나 행성으로 보내진다. 이곳에서는 읽고 쓰기가 금지되어 있다. 신처럼 여겨지는 루마타는 현지 지식인들을 구하기 위해 고군분투한다. 알렉세이 게르만의 유작으로 사후 게르만 주니어에 의해 완성된 세기의 역작.

Maxim Kammerer fights for his love and freedom. He leads a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers. One of the rulers, Strannik, knows how dangerous Maxim can be. He makes up his mind to stop the young man at any cost. The last close fight will decide everything.

인간 문명의 황금기를 맞은 2157년. 프리랜서 우주 비행조종사들은 행성 간의 여행을 즐기기에 이른다. 우주를 비행하던 22살의 막심은 갑작스런 운석과의 충돌로 불시착하게 된다. 그 곳은 지구에서 먼 사락쉬(Saraksh) 행성! 사람이 살고 있다는 사실에 신기해하며 적응해나가는 것도 잠시, 그 행성의 사람들은 그를 위협하기 시작하는데…

In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.

An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off.

The story of a writer who accidentally stumbles across the elixir of immortality and in doing so encounters the small group of immortals who have jealously guarded this secret for centuries. Once the writer has knowledge of this elixir, called 'Mafussalin', the group of five immortals give him a stark choice: either join them, with the price of admission, being a duel to the death between the immortal who accidentally gave the secret away or death at the hands of the group. As the writer makes up his mind, sometimes aided and at other times opposed by the ever shifting alliances from within the group, we discover how the other immortals became this way, their true ages and what they have done with this 'gift'.

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.

Crew of a spaceship finds itself in contact with just one local inhabitant - a humanoid that looks remarkably human.

In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.

In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.

The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.

The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.

잿빛의 이름없는 이 도시는 '구역'이라는 곳으로 철조망으로 둘러싸여 군인들이 지키고 있는 외계의 공간이라 알려져 있다. 아내의 만류에도 불구하고 스토커라는 이름의 한 사내가 칠흑 같은 어둠 속을 걸어나온다. 그는 구역 안으로 사람들을 안내할 수 있는 정신적인 재능을 부여받은 소수의 무리 중의 하나이다. 하지만 이 일은 너무나도 위험천만한 일이기 때문에 정부에 걸릴 경우엔 감옥행도 불사해야 하는 일이다. 사람들이 이 구역 안의 공간으로 들어가고자 하는 이유는 이곳에 가는 오직 한 사람만 자신의 비밀스런 꿈을 이룰 수 있다는 설이 있기 때문이다. 그 날밤, 스토커는 두 사람을 안내해 구역 안으로 들어간다. 한 사람은 유명한 작가로 이제는 영감이 소멸돼 자신의 천재성에 대해 회의를 갖기 시작하는 사람이고, 또 다른 한 사람은 조용한 과학자로 여행보다는 배낭에 더 관심을 가지는 사람이다. 버려진 공간 '구역'에서 그 공간을 향하는 길은 정해져 있지 않다. 그들이 점점 공간에 가까이 다가갈수록 규칙은 변하고 스토커는 커다란 위험에 직면하는데...

Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept administration, a dishonest, show-horse professor, and numerous equipment failures. It offers an idealistic view of the scientific work ethic, as reflected in the title which suggests that the scientists' weekends are nonexistent. (Wikipedia)