The Ugly Swans

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The Ugly Swans

Cover from MacMillan edition
Author	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Original title	Гадкие лебеди
Translator	Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky
Language	Russian
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Macmillan in U.S., unpublished in USSR until 1987
Publication date	in samizdat since 1968
Publication place	Soviet Union
Published in English	1979 1st in U.S.
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
ISBN	0-02-615190-1 (US edition)
OCLC	4593633
Dewey Decimal	891.7/3/44
LC Class	PZ4.S919 Ug 1979 PG3476.S78835

The Ugly Swans (Russian: Гадкие лебеди) is a science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In the USSR, it was published in 1987, in the Latvian magazine Daugava, with the title "The Time of Rains" (Russian: Время дождей).

Initially, the novel was written in 1966-1967 to be published in the Soviet literary magazine Molodaya Gvardiya, but the publication was rejected by censor due to prominent political and free-thought overtones in the novel. It circulated in samizdat, and in 1972 was published without the authors' permission abroad, in the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 2006, a loose film adaptation of the novel was made by Konstantin Lopushansky.