"Noon, XXII century" is a reworking of an earlier story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Return". In 1967, the authors expanded and supplemented it, starting the story not with the "return of the starship", but with previous events. This is the so-called. "A story in stories" - a collection of short stories - sketches of the world of the future. Launched in 2017, the spacecraft with the ability to accelerate to subluminal speeds returns to Earth in 2119. Its crew, Sergei Kondratiev and Evgeny Slavin, who almost died in space, are reacquainted with the new planet. People are now moving around with the help of flying pterocars, assembling gardener robots and shepherd robots, revealing the secrets of the brain and catching echoes of the past with a scattered information collector (DIC), mastering new principles of space flight ... The book "Noon, XXII century", in addition to the idea of the future from the 60s of the last century, is also interesting in that for the first time the heroes of many future works of the Strugatskys appear here - Bykov, Yurkovsky, Gorbovsky.

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