The Strugatskiis' Pushkinian cosmology
A biography through astronomy
Minor planets: the Strugatskiis' earlier experiments in cosmology
The hell of the ignorant: The Second Martian Invasion
Poincare's starless hell: The Inhabited Island
Exceptions to the laws of thermodynamics: Roadside Picnic
"Long live darkness!": A Billion Years Until the End of the World
The island universe and the copper doorknob: The Doomed City
Chronic bewilderment and astronomical "fact": Those Burdened by Evil
Coda. "Day and night my man in black gives me no peace...": The Yids of the City of Peter.