Definitely Maybe
In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe!
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky were the greatest science fiction writers of the Soviet era: their books were intellectually provocative and riotously funny, full of boldly imagined scenarios and veiled—but clear—social criticism. Which may be why Definitely Maybe has never before been available in an uncensored edition, let alone in English.
It tells the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov, who has sent his wife and son off to her mother’s house in Odessa so that he can work, free from distractions, on the project he’s sure will win him the Nobel Prize.
But he’d have…
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February 4, 2014
ARKADY (1925–1991) and BORIS (1933–2012) STRUGATSKY were the most acclaimed and beloved science fiction writers of the Soviet era. They are the authors of twenty-five novels together, including Definitely Maybe, Roadside Picnic (which was the basis for Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker); Snail on the Slope; and Hard to Be a God, as well as numerous short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts. Their books have been translated into multiple languages and published in twenty-seven countries. The asteroid 3054 Strugatskia, discovered in 1977, is named after the brothers.
Definitely Maybe
Arkady Strugatsky
ARKADY (1925–1991) and BORIS (1933–2012) STRUGATSKY were the most acclaimed and beloved science fiction writers of the Soviet era. They are the authors of twenty-five novels together, including Definitely Maybe, Roadside Picnic (which was the basis for Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker); Snail on the Slope; and Hard to Be a God, as well as numerous short stories, essays, plays, and film scripts. Their books have been translated into multiple languages and published in twenty-seven countries. The asteroid 3054 Strugatskia, discovered in 1977, is named after the brothers.
Definitely Maybe
Arkady Strugatsky
La Femme de Gilles
Madeleine Bourdouxhe
33 Days
Leon Werth
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson
Specimen Days and Collect
Walt Whitman
Insel
Mina Loy
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
James Agee
Definitely Maybe
Arkady Strugatsky, Strugatsky Boris
Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm
Gilgi
Irmgard Keun
The Oasis
Mary McCarthy
College of One
Sheilah Graham
The Reverberator
Henry James
I Await the Devil's Coming
Mary MacLane
I, Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane
Girlfriend on Mars
Deborah Willis
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
David Mitchell
The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Prophet
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché
The Ferryman
Justin Cronin
Do You Remember Being Born?
Sean Michaels
The Apollo Murders
Chris Hadfield
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
They
Kay Dick
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
The End of Men
Christina Sweeney-Baird
