Far Rainbow / The Second Invasion from Mars

Far Rainbow is about a planet that finds it self facing the end. It has to make some choices. Choices on who will live and who will die. The Second Invasion From Mars is about Martians coming back to take over the Earth using different methods. Both stories deal mostly with the human condition and have little to do with science or technology. It is a must for any sci-fi library.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's "Far Rainbow" represents that strangest of amalgams -- an eerily beautiful story of a planetary disaster. From a population of millions, only a handful could be saved. Paradoxically, the event brings out the best of the inhabitants, who set about selecting those among their number who represent the best of its people, work, and aspirations. Among the greatest works of all postwar Soviet fiction irrespective of category, the sci-fi books of the Strugatsky brothers deserve to be reprinted and disseminated to a new generation.