The Ugly Swans
Cover from MacMillan edition | |
| Author | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky |
|---|---|
| Original title | Гадкие лебеди |
| Translator | Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Macmillan in U.S., unpublished in USSR until 1987 |
Publication date | in samizdat since 1968 |
| Publication place | Soviet Union |
Published in English | 1979 1st in U.S. |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-02-615190-1 (US edition) |
| OCLC | 4593633 |
| 891.7/3/44 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.S919 Ug 1979 PG3476.S78835 |
The Ugly Swans (Russian: Гадкие лебеди) is a science fiction novel by Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the USSR, it was published in 1987, in the Latvian magazine Daugava, with the title "The Time of Rains" (Russian: Время дождей).
Initially, the novel was written in 1966-1967 to be published in the Soviet literary magazine Molodaya Gvardiya, but the publication was rejected by censor due to prominent political and free-thought overtones in the novel. It circulated in samizdat, and in 1972 was published without the authors' permission abroad, in the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 2006, a loose film adaptation of the novel was made by Konstantin Lopushansky.