One Billion Years to the End of the World - Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

One Billion Years to the End of the World by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky / ISBN 9780241472477 / 160-page paperback from Penguin Classics

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'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin

This 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