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68 relations: Algae, Ark Megaforms, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Arkanar, Atmosphere, Beetle in the Anthill, Biosphere, Chess, Colony, Communism, Communist society, Deimos (moon), Disquiet (Strugatsky novel), Earth, Earth (Noon Universe), Environmental disaster, Escape Attempt, Far Rainbow, Fauna, Fictional universe, Fish, Foundlings (Noon Universe), Future history, Gennady Komov, Golovans, Hard science fiction, Hard to Be a God, Humanoid, Humans (Noon Universe), Leonid Gorbovsky, Leoniders, Lev Abalkin, List of minor Noon Universe characters, Luden, Mammal, Mars, Maxim Kammerer, Meritocracy, Noah's Ark, Noon Universe, Noon: 22nd Century, Nuclear weapon, Phobos (moon), Planets in science fiction, Prisoners of Power, Progressor, Protein, Queen (chess), Rainbow (Noon Universe), Regeneration (biology), ..., Reptile, Rudolf Sikorski, Russian language, Saraksh, Saula (fictional planet), Snail on the Slope, Space Apprentice, Space Mowgli, Stellar evolution, Symbiosis, Tagorians, The Final Circle of Paradise, The Kid from Hell, The Land of Crimson Clouds, The Time Wanderers, The Way to Amalthea, Total war, Vizier. Expand index (18 more) »
Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
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Ark Megaforms
Ark Megaforms (негуманоиды Ковчега) are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady (Аркадий; 28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris (Бори́с; 14 April 1933 – 19 November 2012) Strugatsky (Струга́цкий; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii) were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
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Arkanar
Arkanar is the capital of Arkanar Kingdom on a fictional unnamed planet described in "Hard to Be a God" ("Трудно быть богом") by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
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Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body.
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Beetle in the Anthill
Beetle in the Anthill (Жук в муравейнике) is a 1979 sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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Biosphere
The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Colony
In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Communist society
In Marxist thought, communist society or the communist system is the type of society and economic system postulated to emerge from technological advances in the productive forces, representing the ultimate goal of the political ideology of Communism.
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Deimos (moon)
Deimos (systematic designation: Mars II) is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of the planet Mars, the other being Phobos.
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Disquiet (Strugatsky novel)
Disquiet (Беспокойство) is a 1965 sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Earth (Noon Universe)
The Noon Universe is the setting of a series of science-fiction books written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
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Environmental disaster
An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is a catastrophic event regarding the environment due to human activity.Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005 This distinguishes it from the concept of a natural disaster. It is also distinct from intentional acts of war such as nuclear bombings. In this case, the impact of humans' alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and/or long-lasting consequences. It can include the deaths of animals (including humans) and plants, or severe disruption of human life, possibly requiring migration.
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Escape Attempt
Escape Attempt (Russian: Попытка к бегству, Popytka k begstvu) is a 1962 science fiction novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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Far Rainbow
Far Rainbow (Далёкая Радуга) is a 1963 science fiction novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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Fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.
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Fictional universe
A fictional universe is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Foundlings (Noon Universe)
In the Noon Universe created by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the foundlings are a group of 13 humans, who evolved out of the embryos stored in the "sarcophagus".
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Future history
A future history is a postulated history of the future and is used by authors of science fiction and other speculative fiction to construct a common background for fiction.
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Gennady Komov
Gennady Komov is a fictional character in Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe.
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Golovans
The Golovans (Russian: голованы, lit. "Headies") are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by the Strugatsky brothers.
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Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy.
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Hard to Be a God
Hard to Be a God (Трудно быть богом, Trudno byt' bogom) is a 1964 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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Humanoid
A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is something that has an appearance resembling a human without actually being one.
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Humans (Noon Universe)
Humans (люди) of the Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky are mostly identical to Homo sapiens.
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Leonid Gorbovsky
Leonid Gorbovsky is a fictional character in Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe.
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Leoniders
Leoniders (леонидяне) are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by the Strugatsky brothers.
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Lev Abalkin
Lev Abalkin (2138 - 2178) is a fictional character in Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe.
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List of minor Noon Universe characters
The Noon Universe novels by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky featured a number of characters who were not of vital importance to the 22nd century, like Leonid Gorbovsky or Maxim Kammerer.
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Luden
Ludens, singular - Luden (людены, люден), are a humanoid race in the fictional Noon Universe created by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Maxim Kammerer
Maxim Kammerer (2137 - after 2226) is a fictional character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe.
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Meritocracy
Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος "strength, power") is a political philosophy which holds that certain things, such as economic goods or power, should be vested in individuals on the basis of talent, effort and achievement, rather than factors such as sexuality, race, gender or wealth.
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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from a world-engulfing flood.
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Noon Universe
The Noon Universe (Russian term: "Мир Полудня" or "Мир Полдня" – "World of Noon") is a fictional future setting for a number of hard science fiction novels written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Noon: 22nd Century
Noon: 22nd Century (Russian: Полдень. XXII век, Polden'. Dvadcat' vtoroy vek) is a 1961 science fiction book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, expanded in 1962 and further in 1967, translated into English in 1978.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Phobos (moon)
Phobos (systematic designation) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos.
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Planets in science fiction
Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media of the science fiction genre as story-settings or depicted locations.
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Prisoners of Power
Prisoners of Power, also known as Inhabited Island (Обитаемый остров), is a science fiction novel written by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Progressor
Progressors in science fiction are people of an advanced space-faring civilization who facilitate progress of less advanced civilizations.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Queen (chess)
The queen (♕,♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
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Rainbow (Noon Universe)
Rainbow (Радуга, pronounced: Raduga) is a fictional planet described in Far Rainbow by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Regeneration (biology)
In biology, regeneration is the process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage.
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Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.
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Rudolf Sikorski
Rudolf Sikorski (2075 - ?) is a fictional character in Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe, also known as Exzellenz or Wanderer.
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Russian language
Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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Saraksh
Saraksh is a fictional planet described in Prisoners of Power ("Обитаемый остров") by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Saula (fictional planet)
Saula is a fictional planet described in "An Attempt to Escape" ("Попытка к бегству") by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
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Snail on the Slope
Snail on the Slope (Russian - "Улитка на склоне") is a sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
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Space Apprentice
Space Apprentice, also known as Probationers (Russian title: Стажёры, Stazhory), is one of the early novels of Russian science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Space Mowgli
Space Mowgli, also known as The Kid (Russian title: Малыш, Malysh), is a 1971 science fiction novel by Russian writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe.
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Stellar evolution
Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time.
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
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Tagorians
Tagorians or Tagoryans (тагоряне) are a fictional, lizard-like alien race from the Noon Universe created by Strugatsky brothers.
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The Final Circle of Paradise
The Final Circle of Paradise (Хищные вещи века, literally Predatory Things of the Century) is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (also spelled Strugatski or Strugatskii) set in the first half of the 21st century.
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The Kid from Hell
The Kid from Hell (Парень из преисподней, Paren' iz preispodney) is a 1974 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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The Land of Crimson Clouds
The Land of Crimson Clouds (Russian: Страна багровых туч) is a 1959 science fiction novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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The Time Wanderers
The Time Wanderers (also known as The Waves Extinguish the Wind; Волны гасят ветер, Volny gasiat veter) is a 1985 science fiction novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe.
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The Way to Amalthea
"The Way to Amalthea" (Put' na Amal'teyu) also known as "Destination: Amaltheia" is an early science fiction novella by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky written in 1959.
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Total war
Total war is warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.
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Vizier
A vizier (rarely; وزير wazīr; وازیر vazīr; vezir; Chinese: 宰相 zǎixiàng; উজির ujira; Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu): वज़ीर or وزیر vazeer; Punjabi: ਵਜ਼ੀਰ or وزير vazīra, sometimes spelt vazir, vizir, vasir, wazir, vesir or vezir) is a high-ranking political advisor or minister.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Universe
