In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that.
From the acclaimed Soviet authors of ROADSIDE PICNIC comes a novel so incendiary that it could not be published until the freedom of perestroika came to the USSR.
A superb SF adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this Locus award winning novel is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artefacts and revenge.