{"product_id":"the-waves-extinguish-the-wind-9781641606264","title":"The Waves Extinguish the Wind","description":"\u003cb\u003eToday, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. But as the authors became increasingly disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, their Noon Universe stories grew darker and more complex as well. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waves Extinguish the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e provides the epic conclusion to the Noon Universe saga, as eighty-nine-year-old Maxim Kammerer looks back at his most earth-shattering investigation, which brought an entire era of human civilization to an end. Searching for evidence that the mysterious alien Wanderers were interfering in Earth's development, Kammerer and his young trainee Toivo Glumov discovered a deeper and more disturbing secret within humanity itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis new translation by Daniels Umanovskis joins updated editions of \u003ci\u003eHard to Be a God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Inhabited Island\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Beetle in the Anthill\u003c\/i\u003e to bring the saga of the Noon Universe to its fitting end: a search for truth and answers in a universe that provides only questions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArkady\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBoris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStrugatsky\u003c\/b\u003e were famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, with more than twenty-five novels and novellas to their names, including \u003ci\u003eThe Doomed City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLame Fate Ugly Swans, and Monday Starts on Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDaniels Umanovskis \u003c\/b\u003eis a software engineer and translator.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chicago Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646228926738,"sku":"9781641606264","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8808b6f-587d-49bd-906b-3c9db46d3244.jpg?v=1733172472","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-waves-extinguish-the-wind-9781641606264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}