The Way to Amalthea

"The Way to Amalthea" (Russian: Путь на Амальтею, romanized: Put' na Amal'teyu) is a science fiction novella by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, published in 1960 and written in 1959. An English translation, titled "Destination: Amaltheia", was published in a collection of the same name of Russian science fiction writers in 1963 by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow.[1][2]

Plot summary

A cargo spaceship, propelled by a photon engine with a large reflective mirror ("sail"), visits the Jupiter system to deliver a cargo to a manned science station on Amalthea. Damaged by meteorites, the spaceship falls into Jupiter, but survives the pressure and floats in the dense atmosphere; the crew manage to work around the damaged mirror and start the main engine to escape Jupiter and finally reach Amalthea.

gollark: Again, it's the "all extreme ideologies look identical" horseshoe theory thing.
gollark: Radical centri-extremism.
gollark: The Riemann sphere thing is *basically* horseshoe theory.
gollark: "incomprehensible blathering regarding nuclear power"
gollark: Just summarize it.

References
  1. http://www.iblist.com/book40816.htm
  2. https://www.scribd.com/doc/23949499/Arkady-and-Boris-Strugatsky-destination-Amaltheia



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