{"id":4332,"date":"2023-10-01T22:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2023-10-02T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:36:32","slug":"definitely-maybe-arkady-boris-strugatsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2023\/10\/01\/definitely-maybe-arkady-boris-strugatsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitely Maybe \u2013 Arkady &amp; Boris Strugatsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-690x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-768x1139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-1035x1536.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-1381x2048.jpg 1381w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-1200x1780.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20230930_001023215-scaled.jpg 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Malianov, an astrophysicist, keeps getting distracted as he is working towards a breakthrough in his current project. He receives mysterious visitors, and his scientist friends are behaving very strangely. Slowly, disturbing signs emerge that there is some sort of conspiracy afoot. Malianov tries to figure out what\u2019s really going on while all around him is confusion and paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I think of a Russian Novel, this is the kind of book I think of: gruelling mundanity, some climactic scenes, with a background of hopelessness and nameless dread. That\u2019s an unfair stereotype \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2019\/09\/30\/anna-karenina-leo-tolstoy\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2364\">Anna Karenina<\/a>, which is surely <em>The<\/em> Russian Novel, isn\u2019t like that at all \u2013 but I think it does apply here. It would be quite unsatisfying for a book like this to have a satisfying ending, and it doesn\u2019t disappoint, which is to say that it is satisfyingly unsatisfying.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malianov, an astrophysicist, keeps getting distracted as he is working towards a breakthrough in his current project. He receives mysterious visitors, and his scientist friends are behaving very strangely. Slowly, disturbing signs emerge that there is some sort of conspiracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2023\/10\/01\/definitely-maybe-arkady-boris-strugatsky\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[234,4,63,147],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-a-b-strugatsky","tag-books","tag-novels","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}