(#152290) THE FINAL CIRCLE OF PARADISE ... Translated by Leonid Renen. Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky.

THE FINAL CIRCLE OF PARADISE ... Translated by Leonid Renen. London: Dennis Dobson, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition in English. Signed by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky on the front free endpaper. Translation of KHISCHNYE VESCHI VEKA (1965). Loose sequel to SPACE APPRENTICE. A cautionary novel of the future depicting a "spiritually regressive dystopia, wherein humanity, freed from historic problems, becomes endangered by too much ease and a new hedonism summed up in "slug," a mysterious addictive substance that provides instant pleasures but that destroys thought, creates and aversion to books, culture, and art of any sort, and binds people in a dehumanizing cycle of self gratification." - Watson and Schellinger (eds), Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Writers, third edition (1991), p. 932. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 776-81. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#152290).

Price: $750.00

Printing identification statement for this book:
"First published in Great Britain 1979" on copyright page.