"A far rainbow" - the book which name "the most heroic story" brothers Strugatsky. No doubt, most intense of products about the world "Half-day, XXII century". Here bravura copper of a Utopia still rings, but habitual attributes of science fiction retreat into the shadow, and on the foreground there are people - from them luck and losses, with their achievements and sufferings, with their torments of conscience. In the narration centre - a situation: because of technogenic accident on a far-out planet people will be lost, it will not be possible to evacuate all, and heroes should solve, whom and how to rescue first of all. An eternal problem of a choice between dishonour and death...