The Final Circle of Paradise

The Final Circle of Paradise
Cover from DAW Books edition
AuthorArkady and Boris Strugatsky
Original titleХищные вещи века
LanguageRussian
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDAW Books in US,
originally published in the USSR 1965
Publication date
1965
Publication placeSoviet Union
Published in English
1976
Media typePrint

The Final Circle of Paradise (Russian: Хищные вещи века, romanized: Khishnye veshi veka, lit.'Predatory Things of the Century') is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was first published in the Soviet Union in 1965, and the first English edition, translated by Leonid Renen, was published by DAW books in 1976. The original Russian language title is a line from Andrei Voznesensky's poem "Beatnik's Monologue. Machine Riot" (1961).