Monday Begins on Saturday – Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Free Audiobook

Written by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Read by Ramiz Monsef
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

A brilliant and incisive satire of the Soviet pseudo-science research of the Cold War, with a new introduction by Adam Roberts.

Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy.

The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings — a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a cat who can remember only the beginnings of stories, a dream-interpreting sofa, a motorcycle that can zoom into the imagined future, a lazy dog-sized mosquito — along with a variety of wizards (including Merlin), vampires, and officers.