About the book: 2017 / The worst thing that can happen to us is that our pain does not become a memory. The best thing that can happen with a book is that the text does not become archaic. This collection includes stories by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, which are not outdated one iota. It could be written today, it could be written tomorrow. We are just beginning to understand everything that they knew more than forty years ago. Contents: Attempt to escape Predatory things of the century A billion years before the end of the world Ugly swans