This story is rightfully considered one of the most interesting and readable among all that was written by the fraternal tandem of science fiction writers - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Completed in 1969, “The Inhabited Island” was then reprinted 24 times in 13 countries, and exactly forty years later the film of the same name was released, directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk and warmly received by admirers of the Strugatsky brothers’ work. But it’s not only readers who constantly return and reread their favorite story. It also “disturbs” writers, and now you are holding in your hands a book in which Maxim Kammerer returns to the planet Saraksh, finds himself in the very heart of the Island Empire, where he finds answers to many questions that previously tormented not only him, but also his leader , the famous Wanderer - Rudolf Sikorski.