Apparently, the experiment runs out of control, the City is shaken by a social unrest and an egalitarian system of job rotations is replaced by a dictatorship. Most of the people live in the City that is skirted by a swamp on one side and a desert on the other. In spite of different native languages the people can effortlessly communicate with each other. The volunteers do not know the goals or conditions of the experiment. The mentors gathered volunteers from Earth from various places and times: from Germany of the 1940s, the USA of the 1960s, Sweden of the 1970s, etc.
The novel is set in a mysterious world where enigmatic Mentors run a sociological experiment. The title originates from an artwork by Nicholas Roerich which "astonished a while ago with its gloomy beauty and the feeling of hopelessness radiating from it." The novel does not belong to the Strugatskys' Noon Universe, and it neither references nor is referenced by any of their other works. It is widely considered among the most philosophical of their novels.
The Doomed City ( Russian: Град обреченный) is a 1972 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. 1972 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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