The Way to Amalthea
1960 novella by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
"The Way to Amalthea" (Russian: Путь на Амальтею, romanized: Put' na Amal'teyu) is a science fiction novella by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, published in 1960 and written in 1959. An English translation, titled "Destination: Amaltheia", was published in a collection of the same name of Russian science fiction writers in 1963 by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow.[1][2]
Plot summary
A cargo spaceship, propelled by a photon engine with a large reflective mirror ("sail"), visits the Jupiter system to deliver cargo to a staffed science station on Amalthea. Damaged by meteorites, the spaceship falls into Jupiter, but survives the pressure and floats in the dense atmosphere; the crew manage to work around the damaged mirror and start the main engine to escape Jupiter and finally reach Amalthea.
References
External links
- Page at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Works by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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- Snail on the Slope
- The Second Invasion from Mars
- The Ugly Swans
- Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
- Roadside Picnic
- The Doomed City
- Definitely Maybe
- The Wish Machine (Stalker)
- Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979)
- Stalker (1979)
- Charodei (1982)
- Dead Man's Letters (1986)
- Days of Eclipse (1988)
- The Ugly Swans (2006)
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