The Waves Extinguish the Wind

De: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Daniels Umanovskis - translator

Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau

Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century.

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.

The Waves Extinguish the Wind 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.

This new translation by Daniels Umanovskis joins updated editions of Hard to Be a God, The Inhabited Island, and The Beetle in the Anthill 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.

©1986 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Afterword © 2001 by Boris Strugatsky (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Brilliant novel and ending for the Noon Universe

I would highly recommend this to any fan of the Strugatsky brothers. Just know this is the final novel of the 14 Noon Universe series and the 3rd book in the Maxim trilogy with in that universe. I’d recommend reading Prisoners of Power and Beetle in the Anthill before reading this.

A first and unfamiliar experience

For me, as a native speaker of the original language it is very interesting to read the works of my favorite authors in other languages too. I can't call this translation "bad", no. It's a very good adaptation, and I enjoyed the performance itself as well. It's interesting that the book came out in 2023, I mean this reading if I understood correctly from the afterword, it's good that there is interest. Looking forward to the release and adaptation of the entire Half Day World and other works. Would love to familiarize myself with them in the non original language.