One Billion Years to the End of the World

Author: Strugatsky, Arkady

Classic science fiction

Published on 6 August 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Science Fiction' series.

Paperback / softback | 176 pages
111 x 179 x 15 | 110g

'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le GuinThis mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something?'On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck' The New York Times