Обитаемый остров

aka Obitaemyy ostrov; The Inhabited Island

Prisoners of Power

Author

Strugatsky Brothers (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)

Language

Russian

Year

1971

Country

Soviet Union

Genre

Novel

eastern europe

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Prisoners of Power, also known as The Inhabited Island, is a science fiction novel written by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was written in 1969 and originally published in the same year in the literary magazine Neva. It appeared in a book form in 1971, with great number of changes as demanded by the state censor; the English translation was released in 1977. The 1992 Russian edition removed most of the censorship-induced changes, with the exception of a few that the authors, in retrospect, had found to be useful. The protagonist is a youngster, Maxim Kammerer, who comes from the version of Earth that exists in the Noon Universe and gets stranded on an unknown planet named Saraksh.