This despite the general lifestyle of eating mice, beating and maiming one another for fun, and plenty of endurance and misery. Another is a poor woman covered in waving cockscombs she's so terrible to look at that nobody pays attention to the fact that she's the smartest one among them.īenedikt isn't the brightest but he is handsome and healthy. There are a handful of other transcriptionists in his unit, one a beautiful young woman with no apparent Consequences, Olenka. Benedikt has a job transcribing fragments of writing shared by their Murza, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glory-Be. The story's main character is the hapless Benedikt, son of an Oldener who has died from eating bad Firelings. This new society is based in small groups gathered around villages named after the Murza in charge. But for the Oldeners, those few who survived the Blast, the Consequence is that they seem to live forever. These Consequences are unpredictable one character has fleshy cockscombs all over her body, one has a tail, others have talons instead of toes. This one takes place 200 years after "the Blast", obviously a nuclear war which has caused radiation contamination and various mutations among people, wildlife and flora of all kinds. from the Russian by Jamey GambrellĪnother strange Russian science fiction novel today.
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