Отягощенные Злом За миллиард лет до конца света. Гадкие лебеди Стругацкие

The arrival of the Demiurge and the demon Rakhkhal in the provincial Tashlinsk in search of a new messiah. Biting reservations in a city where it always rains. And the Homeostatic Universe that kills Man. "Burdened by Evil", "A Billion Years Before the End of the World", "Ugly Swans". The conflict of the Future (terrible, because it is different) and the Present. The conflict of freedom - the child is always free - and property - he is my child. The conflict of the Teacher, who lives for the future, and the state Golem. The tragedies of people who pose a threat not even to the ruling regime, not to the state or party, but to the whole Universe, indifferent and apathetic. About all this and not only in the book Burdened with Evil. A billion years before the end of the world. Ugly Swans (Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky)