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Monday Begins on Saturday

Name: Monday Begins on Saturday
Rating: 4.14 (17460 reviews)
Author: Arkady Strugatsky

Arkady Strugatsky January 1, 1965

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When young programmer Aleksandr Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry, where research into magic is serious business. Where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be far behind?

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