Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction experts, yet the novel they worked hardest about, the one that was their very own favorite and that readers worldwide have acclaimed their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed Town was so politically risky that this Strugatskys held its lifestyle a secret actually from their closest friends for sixteen years. It had been only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the final about The Doomed Town of their functions to see publication.The Doomed Town is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and off during the night, a city bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall in the other. Its inhabitants are people plucked from twentieth-century history at various moments and areas and still left to govern themselves under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable.Andrei Voronin, a astronomer taken from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, despite the fact that his first work in the city is really as a garbage collector. As significantly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, Voronin rises through the politics hierarchy, with devastating effect.