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The Ugly Swans () is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the USSR, it was published in 1987, in the Latvian magazine Daugava, with the title "The Time of Rains" (). Later it was included as a story within a story in Read More..

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Description	The Ugly Swans () is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the USSR, it was published in 1987, in the Latvian magazine Daugava, with the title "The Time of Rains" (). Later it was included as a story within a story in Strugatsky's "ru:Хромая судьба", where the protagonist, Felix Sorokin, secretly works on the novel.Initially, the novel was written in 1966-1967 to be published in the Soviet literary magazine Molodaya Gvardiya, but the publication was rejected by censor due to prominent political and free-thought overtones in the novel. It circulated in samizdat, and in 1972 was published without the authors' permission abroad, in the Federal Republic of Germany.In 2006, a loose film adaptation of the novel was made by Konstantin Lopushansky.
Description	The Ugly Swans () is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the USSR, it was published in 1987, in the Latvian magazine Daugava, with the title "The Time of Rains" (). Later it was included as a story within a story in Strugatsky's "ru:Хромая судьба", where the protagonist, Felix Sorokin, secretly works on the novel.Initially, the novel was written in 1966-1967 to be published in the Soviet literary magazine Molodaya Gvardiya, but the publication was rejected by censor due to prominent political and free-thought overtones in the novel. It circulated in samizdat, and in 1972 was published without the authors' permission abroad, in the Federal Republic of Germany.In 2006, a loose film adaptation of the novel was made by Konstantin Lopushansky.

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Name	The Ugly Swans
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Authors	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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Translator	Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky
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Genre	Science fiction novel
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Language	Russian
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Country	Soviet Union
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Media_type	Print (Hardcover)
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Isbn	0-02-615190-1
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Oclc	4593633
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Publisher	Macmillan in U.S., unpublished in USSR until 1987
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