![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When faced with absurd or nightmarish events, their mantra is “The Experiment is the Experiment.”Īndrei is a thoughtful, decent man: he tries to be just, to do what he can to “put things right.” But he is so indoctrinated into the reigning ideology that he’s unaware of its soul-destroying meaninglessness. What is the Experiment? What are its objectives? Who is running it? No one knows. In the second chapter, Andrei is an investigator in the public prosecutor’s office in the third, senior editor of the City Gazette.Įveryone in the City is a subject of the Experiment. But in the City, jobs are ephemeral: at any moment, anyone can be assigned a different job. New residents are assigned jobs quite different from those they held on Earth-when we meet former astronomer Andrei Voronin, he is a garbage collector. except for hordes of baboons that occasionally rampage through the streets, a building that materializes at random locations, and other oddities. These and about a million others from different countries and different times have been somehow transported to the City, a wholly artificial world that strongly resembles Earth. 238 pages.Ī Soviet astronomer from the 1950s. ![]()
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