Noon 22nd Century Author:Arkady Strugatskii, Boris Strugatskii, Patrick L. McGuire (Translator) Evgeny Slavin, the first human born on Mars and the first faster-than-light traveler, is propelled one hundred years into the future in company with four futuristic musketeers. An episodic collection of linked short stories or a fix-up, as some parts had been published previously as independent short stories.