"The Wish Machine" and Other Screenplays

The audiobook includes three literary scripts, among those written by the Strugatsky brothers—"The Murder Case" (as a novella, this plot is known both under this name and as “The Hotel ‘The House of the Dead Mountaineer’”), “The Day of Eclipse” (“A Billion Years Before the End of the World”), and “The Machine of Wishes” (“Roadside Picnic”).

From the author: “I just figured this out: in thirty years ABS wrote a total of ten feature-length scripts. Plus a good dozen of short scripts and cartoons. Plus another dozen (as far as I know) feature-length scripts were written with our knowledge and approval by all sorts of good-hearted screenwriters—both amateurs and seasoned professionals. And from all this variety of potential opportunities, eight films came to fruition—five were made with us and three abroad. Not a lot…”