The Waves Extinguish the Wind, Arkady Strugatsky
The Waves Extinguish the Wind, Arkady Strugatsky
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The Waves Extinguish the Wind

Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Daniels Umanovskis

Narrator: Kevin Pariseau

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century.In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. But as the authors became increasingly disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, their Noon Universe stories grew darker and more complex as well.The Waves Extinguish the Wind provides the epic conclusion to the Noon Universe saga, as eighty-nine-year-old Maxim Kammerer looks back at his most earth-shattering investigation, which brought an entire era of human civilization to an end. Searching for evidence that the mysterious alien Wanderers were interfering in Earth’s development, Kammerer and his young trainee Toivo Glumov discovered a deeper and more disturbing secret within humanity itself.This new translation by Daniels Umanovskis joins updated editions of Hard to Be a God, The Inhabited Island, and The Beetle in the Anthill to bring the saga of the Noon Universe to its fitting end: a search for truth and answers in a universe that provides only questions.

About Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991) was drafted into the Soviet army and trained at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese. He worked as a teacher and interpreter for the military until 1955, when he began to work as an editor and writer. In 1958 he began to collaborate with his brother, Boris. Along with his brother, he is one of the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction. Together they wrote twenty-five novels and novellas, and their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films.

About Boris Strugatsky

Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012) worked as an astronomer and computer engineer until 1966, when he became a full-time writer. Along with his brother, Arkady, he is one of the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction. Together they wrote twenty-five novels and novellas, and their books have been widely translated and made into a number of films.

About Kevin Pariseau

Read by Kevin Pariseau, Mark Boyett, L. J. Ganser, Angelo Di Loreto, Vivienne Leheny, Marc Vietor, Gabriel Sloyer, Oliver Wyman, Michael David Axtell, Stephen Bel Davies, and Holter Graham


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kuszma on May 19, 2020

A minap böngészgettem a leendő olvasmányaim között, és az egyikük előlapján egy bejegyzéssel találkoztam, miszerint Járvás Péter 5. osztályos tanuló „példamutató magatartása, szorgalma és kimagasló tanulmányi eredménye jutalmául” kapta ezt a könyvet. Ez aztán el is döntötte, hogy én most Sztrugackij......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 10, 2017

This is not a book for the careless or impatient. Those two sci-fi geniuses from the Soviet Union, Strugatsky Arkady and Strugatsky Boris have created a novel based on official reports and interpolations to fill the gaps -- all on the subject of whether a group of Wanderers is attempting to direct t......more

Goodreads review by Atreju on March 08, 2023

4,5 stars. E' l'ultimo capitolo della trilogia dedicata a Maksim Kammerer e l'ultimo del ciclo dell'Universo del Mezzogiorno. E' un testo breve ma molto concentrato. Ricchissimo di riferimenti e spunti ai lavori precedenti. Sono citati persone, luoghi, tecnologie, eventi, riflessioni ecc. già menziona......more

Goodreads review by Tigran on June 29, 2016

"Волны гасят ветер" - последняя книга про Мир Полудня. В своём отзыве я решил подытожить всю серию. Прочитал я её всю взахлёб. И всем советую! Книги мудрые, захватывающие, человечные, и при этом каждая уникальна, непохожа на остальные. Если сравнивать литературу Стругацких (да и советскую фантастику в......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 09, 2015

I found this book in my favourite Gold Coast bookstore and bought it immediately even though it was yellowing and smelt of an old paperback (which it was, having been published 1987). Years ago I had read the Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, mainly because of Tarkovsky's Stalker and now I had another b......more