Hard to Be a God by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, translation by Olena Bormashenko

In the olden times of the long long ago, Don A. Wollheim turned his new company, DAW Books, to importing, translating and publishing foreign SF. This interesting experiment was not rewarded with glowing sales and eventually the experiment was dropped. I did have this edition, though:



Whose cover depicts a scene found nowhere in the book. It was translated by Wendayne Ackerman, working from a German translation, I believe). No doubt Ackerman did the best she could but the the new Chicago Review Press edition is superior in pretty much every way.
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So, what would you say

Is an appropriate sf book for a camping trip?

How hard would it be

To build and deliver a long lived rover to Titan?

Seriously?

China apparently feels that there are not enough international crises.

My apology to the squirrel I scared into a tree tonight

I had no idea Begbie the Chipmunk was in that tree.

There was a long moment where I thought he'd have a go at me but instead I got to hear what chipmunk verbal abuse sounds like.