One Billion Years To The End Of The World by Arkady Strugatsky
A Manuscript Discovered Under Unusual Circumstances
A Soviet astrophysicist on the brink of a breakthrough about the universe’s stability finds his work derailed by a barrage of uncanny distractions—unexpected visitors, bureaucratic meddling, seductive temptations, and mounting coincidences—that feel calculated to make him quit. As fellow scientists report similar pressures and retreat from their research, he confronts the chilling notion that some external force curbs perilous advances in knowledge, leaving him to decide whether to pursue truth at any cost or surrender for the sake of safety and normalcy.
- Published
- 1977
- Nationality
- Russian
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-200
- Original Language
- Russian
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(3.0)
- Alternate Titles
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- A Billion Years to the End of the World
- Definitely Maybe
- One Billion Years Before the End of the World
- Za milliard let do kontsa sveta
- За миллиард лет до конца света
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