Prisoners of Power by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Short summary

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Wandering the expanse of space, an explorer crashes due to a malfunction in his spaceship. Landing on an unknown planet, the traveler learns about the current situation.

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While exploring outer space, damage occurs inside Maxim Krammerer’s ship, making further control of the spacecraft impossible. The ship crashes near an unknown planet, where the pilot decides to set a course.

Having landed, Max suffers no damage. What can not be said about the ship, which in a few minutes has already exploded. After looking around the area, the man realizes that he is in the woods. The suitable atmosphere and the general environment strongly resembled that on Earth.

After some time of wandering through the woods, Maxim runs into the natives. They take him prisoner and lead him to interrogation. During the interrogation process the natives failed to get anything out of the alien. The language barrier, due to which the natives did not understand the visitor’s speech, had its effect.

Later, the natives decided to send the prisoner elsewhere. They attach a guard, Gaius Gaal, as his escort, who has complete control over the alien’s movements and his intentions.