The Search for Purpose, or The Twenty-Seventh Theorem of Ethics

The audiobook includes Boris Strugatsky’s novel “Looking for Destiny, or The Twenty-Seventh Theorem of Ethics,” published under the pseudonym S. Vititsky. The main character is the Leningrad software engineer Stanislav Krasnogorov. Marking his thirty-seventh birthday with his best friend Viktor Kikonin, nicknamed “Viscount,” he, for the first time clearly, formulates a thought that has been holding him for many years: throughout his life, fate has repeatedly protected him in the most various—and most dangerous—situations, saving him from an inevitable, seemingly certain death…