Noon Universe

World of noon is the name given to an imaginary of the Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky future world that is at the heart of their work. In different, separate stories, Powesti and novels of these authors appear on the same figures, planets, technical achievements and a similar social order. The term " world of the South " is the collection of short stories "Noon, 22nd Century " taken the first time in 1967 is appeared on German and mainly consisted of stories from the 1962 Russian novel appeared Episode return. The name is also found in the English language as " Noon Universe " and in Russian as " Мир Полудня ". In German-speaking countries, the term first appeared in an afterword by Erik Simon on the short stories noon, 22nd century. The " lunch " in this name stands for the "high level of development of human civilization."

Works of the lunch cycle

Belonging to the world of the South Works of Strugazkis, sorted according to the chronology of the action, stating the release date of the Russian original:

  • Return, episodic novel in 1962, and noon, 22 century, short stories
  • Some short stories that were not included in the above story collection
  • Escape attempt, novel 1962
  • The distant rainbow, novel 1963
  • It is not easy to be a god, Roman 1964
  • The inhabited island, novel 1969
  • The third civilization, Roman 1971
  • The boy from hell, short novel 1974
  • Restlessness, novel, 1990, based on a manuscript from 1965
  • A Beetle in the Anthill, Roman 1979/80
  • The waves drown the wind, novel, 1985/86

Society of the universe lunch

The Strugazkis have once described as follows with the Company's lunch world:

"We have a world represented, we dream of a world in which we would like to live and work, a world to live for, and we strive to work today. We have tried to show a world that gives people unlimited opportunities for spiritual development and for creativity. "

The often conflicting with the Soviet censorship authors have thereby decided not to put their line loyalty by Marxist vocabulary out. Your "heroes" are never flawless "superman " as they like to forecast the Soviet propaganda of the time of origin of their early work, although their future society quite clearly has features of a communist society: There is no more money economy, people are free from material concerns and to revise its drive system in the knowledge or interest in creative or educational inclinations. However, hierarchies continue to exist and the fate of Lev Abalkin in " A beetle in the anthill " makes it clear that there are institutions, for example, to study the possibilities and to take a certain professional rules - all the rules of esteemed educational science. Erik Simon has therefore referred the world of noon even as "educational utopia ": In the course of literary shaping the world of the South seem expressly to increase hierarchies: Sun, Maxim Kammerer talks in A beetle in the anthill Rudolf Sikorski not only as a chef, but as "excellence ". "The future cycle of Strugazkis is initially borne by the extrapolation towards a beautiful, reasonable, progressive world, but as the authors lose confidence in the fundamentals of their extrapolations by little, they made ​​the daily experienced idiocies of real existing socialism completely different extrapolations are able to derive, the lunch was darkened. "

Important persons acting

Individuals from the world of midday appear in several works, sometimes as a central persons acting in concert, sometimes only as giving instructions by radio superiors - or they and their deeds are mentioned as positive or deterrent examples in conversations. These include:

  • Leonid Andreyevich Gorbowski ( noon, 22nd Century, The Third Civilization, The distant rainbow, restlessness, The waves drown the wind, mentioned in escape attempt and A Beetle in the Anthill )
  • Maxim Kammerer ( The Inhabited Island, A Beetle in the Anthill, The waves drown the wind, mentioned in the third civilization )
  • Rudolf Sikorski ( The Inhabited Island, A Beetle in the Anthill, The Third Civilization, mentioned in the waves drown the wind)
  • Lew Abalkin ( A beetle in the anthill )
  • Gennadi Jurjewitsch Komov ( noon, 22nd Century, The Third Civilization, A Beetle in the Anthill, The waves drown the wind ' )
  • Don Rumata / Anton ( Active in It's not easy to be a god, as mentioned Progressor in different plants )
  • Isaac Bromberg ( Active in A Beetle in the Anthill, mentioned in several works )

Terms from the world of the South

  • Progressors: human observers and " development workers " on other planets
  • Known name for a technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization only by their legacies on different planets: The Wanderer
  • Commission for contacts: leads the diplomatic relations between Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations

Planet of the world of the South

  • Pandora (agitation, mentioned in many more than "leisure Planet" )
  • Saraksch ( The Inhabited Island )
  • Rainbow ( The distant rainbow )
  • Leonida ( the subject of the story, mentioned a well-established planet in the band noon, 22nd century in other works as the home of an ecological civilization )
  • Tagore (mentioned in escape attempt and A Beetle in the Anthill )
  • Giganda ( The Boy from Hell )
  • Esperanza ( A Beetle in the Anthill )
  • Pantia (mentioned in the third civilization )
  • Wladislawa (mentioned in lunch 22.Jahrhundert " )

Continuation of the "Midday world "

Since 2002 Boris Strugatsky issued an SF magazine, " noon, the 21st Century " to the " world of the South " refers by name.

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