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The setting is a [[The Future|future]] [[Utopia]] that gets gradually [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] as the authors [[Real Life Writes the Plot|become disillusioned with the Soviet Union]]. Intellectuals suffer from free time and idle hands [[Mad Scientist|turn to dangerous experiments]], the [[Precursors]] may be guiding the course of events on Earth and it's driving the security services justifiably paranoid, attempts to help out [[The Dung Ages|primitive alien civilizations]] end in tragedy, and a general "Golden Age feeling the premonitions of its own decay" atmosphere pervades. The utopia is never truly deconstructed to the point of destruction (though [[Word of God]] says only Arkady's [[Author Existence Failure]] prevented it).
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Thanks to advances in medical science, Noon Universe Earthlings are capable of near super-human feats and can recover from potentially deadly injuries. As they explore the universe, they discover many Earthlike planets inhabited by [[Human Aliens|humanoids]] [[Days of Future Past|re-enacting various periods of Earth history]] in the most unpleasant ways possible. This allows for some seriously dark and gritty social satire and the posing of interesting questions: just what can a society of [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|Sufficiently Advanced Earthlings]] do to prevent the Holocaust or the Inquisition from recurring elsewhere without denying free will, and what effect will interacting with violent cultures have on the Earthlings themselves?
== Novels set in the Noon Universe ==
* ''[[Noon: 22nd Century|Noon Twenty Second Century]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Literature/Escape Attempt|Escape Attempt]]'' (1962)
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* ''[[The Time Wanderers]]'' (1986)
▲Eleventh novel, ''The White Queen'' (as in the chess piece), was planned but never completed due to [[Author Existence Failure|Arkady Strugatsky's death]] in 1991.
In addition to the core novels above, following Strugatsky works are considered to be set in the same universe: ''The Land of Crimson Clouds'' (never translated from Russian), ''The Way to Amalthea'', ''Space Apprentice'', ''The Final Circle of Paradise'', and several untranslated short stories.
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