Snail on the Slope

One of the most mysterious and provocative works of the Strugatsky brothers, which printed in parts - in 1966 and 1968, after which it fell under the prohibition and came to the reader in full in 1988.
The management created for the study and development of the forest.
Forest resisting any attempts to invade his secrets.
Pepper and Candida - scientists who challenge the spontaneous forces, but divergers in the understanding of the problems that have stipped before humanity.
Bureaucratic system, spare and monumental at the same time, ruthlessly grinding in their millstones as natural resources and human destred.
A book that combines the features of anti-duct and parables, uncompromising and fascinating, as life itself