Noon: 22nd Century

Strugatsky, Arkady, and Boris Strugatsky. Noon: 22nd Century. Полдень. XXII век (Polden'. Dvadcat' vtoroy vek) 1961. Patrick L. McGuire, translator. New York: Macmillan, 1978.

Wikipedia entry says of this book, "It is sometimes considered an episodic novel, collection of linked short stories or a fix-up as some parts had been published previously as independent short stories. It relates several stories of the 22nd century, while providing the background "feel" for the style of life which gave birth to the Noon Universe."[1]

Immediately relevant: "'The Moving Roads' - [Sergei] Kondratev [a recurring character thrown into the future] explores Earth on a global system of moving roadways."[2] Cf. and contrast R. A. Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" (1940).

See in this category the Strugatsky's Escape Attempt.

Discussed in Noel Perrin's "Robots: Three Fantasies and One Big Cold Reality, which see.

RDE, with thanks to JJP, 9July20