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Prisoners of Power (original Russian title: Обитаемый остров, lit. Inhabited Island) is the sixth novel by the Strugatsky Brothers to be set in the Noon Universe. First serialized in a magazine in 1969, published in book form in 1971.The protagonist, Maxim Kammerer, is stranded on the After the End Crapsack World of Saraksh where the atmosphere has such enormous refraction index that the horizon seems to bend upwards. After a nuclear war, the planet is divided into several surviving rump empires. And all of them seem to be competing over who can be the most evil. The empire where he lands practices Mind Control on the unwashed masses and Fantastic Racism against those who can withstand their Mind Control methods. At first Maxim seems a bit of a Fish out of Temporal Water, just trying to get back home and unable to comprehend the nature of what's happening around him, taking the propoganda at face value. He proceeds to uncover the truth and tries to improve the situation. How well he succeeds is debatable.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Various Action-Adventure tropes are played with and deconstructed, including but not limited to Mighty Whitey (the locals are white, but certainly savage compared to the protagonist, who is tan due to sunburn), No Endor Holocaust (averted), and What the Hell, Hero?.There are three versions of the novel - the original (all but impossible to find), the censored version (896 corrections) approved by the Soviet government (the basis for all official foreign translations) and the 'restored' version that reverts many — but not all — of the changes (the only version still in print). A movie adaptation premiered in Russia in December 2008. | |
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After the End: The Human Aliens of Saraksh are the survivors of a nuclear war, and live in this kind of setting. Everything is radioactive, the countryside is filled with rusting, malfunctioning Killer Robots, the world is divided between savage regimes squabbling over the remaining habitable scraps of land, and the best hope for preserving civilization may be a horribly oppressive dictatorial state that employs Mind Control to keep its subjects in line. At one point in the story Maxim comes across old photos from before the war, showing a lush, beautiful planet filled with happy, prosperous people; he actually becomes angry thinking about how Saraksh's inhabitants ruined their world. | |
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The "Dummkopf! Rotznase!" Wham Line doesn't have such an effect in the 2009 movie, since it's said with such a hard Russian accent that you won't at first realize it's in German. | |
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