About the book: 2001 / The third volume of collected works includes works written between 1961 and 1963: “An Attempt to Escape”, “Distant Rainbow”, “It’s Hard to Be a God”, “Monday Begins on Saturday”, as well as the stories: “The First People on the First Raft”, “Poor Evil People”. The volume is supplemented by comments by B. Strugatsky and excerpts from criticism of that time.