![]() ![]() ![]() With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the first minister to the king. ![]() Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler, and a brawler, he is never defeated, but yet he can never kill. What if parenting was governed by the Starfleet’s Prime Directive? Photo: woodleywonderworks (CC BY 2.0)ĭon Rumata has been sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to save what he can. The novel’s core idea is that human progress throughout the centuries is often cruel and bloody, and that religion and blind faith can be an effective tool of oppression, working to destroy the emerging scientific disciplines and enlightenment. “The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an alien planet, that is populated by human beings, whose society has not advanced beyond the Middle Ages. ~Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God Plot summary ![]() Despising and fearing knowledge, they will nonetheless inevitably decide to promote it in order to survive.” “And no matter how much the gray people in power despise knowledge, they can’t do anything about historical objectivity they can slow it down, but they can’t stop it. ![]()
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