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| Author | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky |
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| Original title | Обитаемый остров |
| Translator | Helen Saltz Jacobson |
| Language | Russian |
| Series | Noon Universe |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | Soviet Union |
Published in English | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-02-615160-X |
| Preceded by | Disquiet |
| Followed by | Space Mowgli |
Prisoners of Power, also known as Inhabited Island (Russian: Обитаемый остров, romanized: Obitaemyy ostrov, pronounced [ɐbʲɪˈtaɪmɨj ˈostrəf]), is a science fiction novel written by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was written in 1969 and originally published in the same year in the literary magazine Neva (1969, No. 3, 4, and 5, publication of the Leningrad Division of the Union of Soviet Writers). It appeared in a book form in 1971, with great number of changes as demanded by the state censor; the English translation was released in 1977. The protagonist is a youngster, Maxim Kammerer, who comes from the version of Earth that exists in the Noon Universe and gets stranded on an unknown planet named Saraksh.