Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Inhabited Island"

Thousands of people rush to the stars ...





The romantic impulse is uncontrollable, but young and young GS volunteers are expecting terrible and brutal tests. And mankind will often face the consequences of an era of rapid conquest of space ...

History

The story "Inhabited Island" was created by brothersStrugatsky more than forty years ago. Back in 1968, the story of the adventures of the Komsomol member from the future was published. The protagonist - Maxim Kammerer - flies on a personal ship in interstellar space and crashes on an inhabited planet. Order here are close to those that reign in the homeland Strugatsky.



The dictatorship of the highest elite - the Fathers, a single ideologyStates - even the most naive readers thought that writers created a novel anti-utopia, a protest against the existing totalitarian Soviet system. However, the Strugatsky themselves, understanding then the danger of their situation, explained the meaning of the work in this way: "We just wanted to tell an adventure story about the communist of the future that fell on someone else's planet.



There is no hidden meaning, and there is no mention of it - it certainly did not go about anti-utopias. "

However, even such an explanation did not suit strict Soviet censorship. Writers have many times remade the "Inhabited Island", removed the whole "wrong" episodes, so that the book could be published.



For example, censorship demanded that the Russianthe surname of Maxim "Rostislavsky" was replaced with the western one - "Kammerer". As a result, in 1969, fans of the Strugatsky creativity were finally able to get acquainted with the new book. The work quickly became a bestseller of that time. Encouraged by the success, the Strugatsky wrote a sequel - several more books. "Inhabited island" became one of the parts of the cycles of the works "Trilogy about Maxim Kammerei" and "World of Noon".