Escape Attempt (Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction) (English and Russian Edition)

By Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky

Three short science fiction novellas by the Strugatsky brothers: Escape Attempt, The Kid from Hell and Space Mowgli. Great jacket art by Richard Powers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0026152509
• ISBN13: 9780026152501
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co., NY & Collier Macmillan, London
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

escape Attempt Review

Summary: Two young guys (linguist and pilot) are planning to go for a hunt to an Exotic Planet until a stranger in whit pants and cap shows up and asks them for a favor: Fly him to an uninhibited planet anywhere in the Universe. That sounds like a swell plan to spend a vocation until the arrive to the planet and find it in the middle of Dark Age. They fill an obligation to interfere...but should they? Personal Thoughts: the story is intriguing, the characters ar well developed and as always in Strugatskys' books there is a certain philosophical twist with some thoughts about social structure and marality of the individual. However the ending confused me quite a bit. i just finished the book and didn't have time to think about it but it does leave you a little bit puzzled. Over all an excellent read.