Then several of his friends-also scientists-drop by, saying they all felt they were on the verge of a major discovery when they got . . . Then a beautiful young woman in an unnervingly short skirt shows up at his door. 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.īut he’d have an easier time making progress if he wasn’t being interrupted all the time: First, it’s the unexpected delivery of a crate of vodka and caviar. Which may be why Definitely Maybe has never before been available in an uncensored edition, let alone in English. 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.
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