Tale of the Troika — 2

The collection recorded at the “Ardis” studio includes two works by the Strugatsky brothers—“Days of the Kraken” and “The Tale of Troy­ka-2.”

“Days of the Kraken” is an unfinished novella that Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky worked on in 1962–1963. The audiobook includes 10 chapters and a detailed plot outline of the early version. The Institute for the Study of Invertebrates received a gigantic kraken as a gift from a Japanese citizen. The institute’s director turns to a neighboring publishing house asking for help translating the documents that arrived along with the creature from Japanese.

“The Tale of the Troika” is a well-known satirical novella by the Strugatsky brothers, linked by common heroes with the novella “Monday Begins on Saturday.” “The Tale of the Troika-2” was originally conceived as a shortened, more “acceptable” version of “The Tale of the Troika,” and later it turned into an independent work with its own, very complicated fate…