Definitely Maybe: A Manuscript Discovered Under Strange Circumstances

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DEFINITELY MAYBE

Originally published under the title За мuллuapд лem дo кoнцa cвema [One Billion Years to the End of the World]

Copyright © 1976, 1977 by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translation copyright © 1978 by Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Afterword copyright © 2013 by the Estates of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

Translation of the afterword copyright © 2013 by Antonina W. Bouis

First Melville House printing: February 2014

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Strugatskii, Arkadii, 1925–1991.

[Za milliard let do kontsa sveta. English]

Definitely maybe : a manuscript discovered under strange circumstances / Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky; translated by Antonia W. Bouis.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-61219-281-9 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-61219-282-6 (ebook)

I. Strugatskii, Boris, 1933–2012, author. II. Bouis, Antonina W., translator. III. Title.

PG3476.S78835Z3213 2014

891.73′44—dc23

2013038567

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