LEADER 04744nam 22009615 450 001 9910811405803321 005 20231122163328.0 010 $a1-61811-980-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781618119803 035 $a(CKB)4100000008416117 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5786844 035 $a(DE-B1597)541091 035 $a(OCoLC)1083691309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781618119803 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008416117 100 $a20200229h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCelestial Hellscapes $eCosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiis' Science Fictions /$fKevin Reese 210 1$aBoston, MA :$cAcademic Studies Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 225 0 $aReal Twentieth Century 311 $a1-61811-979-6 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgements --$tA Note on the Names of Our "Author" --$tThe Strugatskiis' Pushkinian Cosmology --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. A Biography through Astronomy --$tChapter 2. Minor Planets: The Strugatskiis' Earlier Experiments in Cosmology --$tChapter 3. The Hell of the Ignorant: The Second Martian Invasion --$tChapter 4. Poincaré's Starless Hell: The Inhabited Island --$tChapter 5. Exceptions to the Laws of Thermodynamics: Roadside Picnic --$tChapter 6. "Long live darkness!": A Billion Years until the End of the World --$tChapter 7. The Island Universe and the Copper Doorknob: The Doomed City --$tChapter 8. Chronic Bewilderment and Astronomical "Fact": Those Burdened by Evil --$tCoda. "Day and night my Man in Black gives me no peace...": The Yids of the City of Peter --$tAfterword --$tBibliography --$tAppendix: The Altitude of Vega --$tIndex 330 $aNeither Arkadii nor Boris Strugatskii had originally intended to make a living in writing. Arkadii dreamed of becoming an astronomer, but his wartime experience and training led him to work as a translator and editor of Japanese literature. Boris intended to become a physicist, trained as an astronomer, and ended up as a computer specialist at Pulkovo Observatory. This common thread of astronomy turns out to be fantastically important for understanding their works, as their most important ones are experiments in cosmology, and their shared expertise is instrumental in their construction of literary hellscapes. This book explores how the Strugatskiis' cosmological explorations are among the most fundamental elements of their art. It examines also how these explorations connect to their predecessors in the Russian literary tradition-particularly to the poetry of Pushkin. 410 0$aReal twentieth century. 606 $aScience fiction, Russian$zSoviet Union$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCosmology in literature 606 $aAstronomy in literature 610 $a20th century literature. 610 $aA Billion Years Until the End of the World. 610 $aAleksandr Pushkin. 610 $aAndrei Tarkovsky. 610 $aArkady Strugatskii. 610 $aArkady Strugatsky. 610 $aArkady and Boris Strugatsky. 610 $aAstronomy. 610 $aBoris Strugatskii. 610 $aBoris Strugatsky. 610 $aCosmology. 610 $aLiterary studies. 610 $aPost-WWII Soviet literature. 610 $aRoadside Picnic. 610 $aRussian authors. 610 $aRussian literature. 610 $aRussian science fiction. 610 $aScience fiction. 610 $aSoviet Union literature. 610 $aSoviet authors. 610 $aSoviet literature. 610 $aSoviet science fiction. 610 $aStrugatskii brothers. 610 $aStrugatskii. 610 $aStrugatsky brothers. 610 $aStrugatsky. 610 $aSvoiet art. 610 $aThe Doomed City. 610 $aThe Inhabited Island. 610 $aThe Second Martian Invasion. 610 $aThe Stalker. 610 $aThe Yids of the City of Peter. 610 $aThe Zone. 610 $aThose Burdened by Evil. 610 $acomparative literature. 610 $apostmodern literature. 610 $apostmodernism. 610 $atwentieth century literature. 610 $atwentieth-century literature. 615 0$aScience fiction, Russian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCosmology in literature. 615 0$aAstronomy in literature. 676 $a891.7344 700 $aReese$b Kevin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01622015 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811405803321 996 $aCelestial Hellscapes$93955630 997 $aUNINA