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The Second Invasion from Mars (Russian: Второе нашествие марсиан), subtitled Diary of a Sane [Person] (Russian: Записки здравомыслящего), is a relatively short 1968 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that portrays two weeks from the life of a common person in highly unusual circumstances.
The Second Invasion from Mars is a satire, I suppose - much sillier than Far Rainbow, probably to the level of Monday Starts on Saturday. In this novel, the residents of a Greek town (it's never specified that they live in Greece, but all the personal names (Apollo, Hermione, Artemis, Charon, Pandalus, etc.) evoke ancient Greece, and Milesia and Marathon are the two places where reports of ...
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- Arkady Strugatsky
Oct 1, 1979 · The Second Invasion from Mars: This is a strange "comedy", a comedy without a single laugh, or even a single smile, at least from me. Everyone in the story has a name from Greek mythology (such as Achilles, Artemis, and even Minotaur), for no reason that I can discern .
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- Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Buy Far Rainbow [and] The Second Invasion from Mars by Strugatsky, Arkady, Strugatsky, Boris, Sturgeon, Theodore, Bouis, Antonina W., Kern, Gary (ISBN: 9780026152006) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Translation of Dalekaia raduga and of Vtoroe nashestvie marsian. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-02-08 20:56:21 Associated-names Strugatskii, Boris Natanovich, joint author; Strugatskii, Arkadii Natanovich.
The Second Invasion from Mars, subtitled Diary of a Sane [Person], is a relatively short 1968 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that portrays two weeks from the life of a common person in highly unusual circumstances. The novel raises the question of the balance between simple, basic needs such as food and stability, and the elevated spiritual values such as "pride of ...
May 22, 2023 · Far Rainbow:This one was pretty intense. It works well as both a disaster novel and a sci-fi novel, and I felt that the characters were well developed considering the time they were given. The Strugatsky brothers do as well to make you feel conten...
