Escape Attempt

This 1982 Macmillan volume gathers three Strugatsky brothers novellas in English translation: the title story, in which travelers from a utopian future stumble onto a distant colony run as a brutal labor camp and must decide whether escape is possible when someone else's freedom is at stake, alongside Space Mowgli and The Kid from Hell. Together they show the Noon Universe's range, from adventurous idealism to the darker costs of progress.