One Billion Years to the End of the WorldA darkly funny satire from the most acclaimed and popular Russian science fiction writers. Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery a Nobel Prize worthy breakthrough. Yet, home alone in his Leningrad apartment, his work is beginning to be stymied. Strange and improbable distractions are mounting around him and he is not alone. Across the city, his scientific colleagues, all close to their own eureka moments, keep finding