“We wanted to write a talented person, but hopelessly crushed by life’s circumstances, he was thoroughly and forever taken by the throat by the “wolfhound century”…” writes Boris Strugatsky about the history of the creation of “Lame Fate,” one of the most complex and least fantastic works brothers Strugatsky, which is directly related to moments in the biography of Arkady Strugatsky - and at the same time representing a “novel within a novel”...