Moscow 2042

In 1982—not coincidentally, just two years before the year made famous by Orwell—Vitaly Kartsev, an exiled Soviet writer, discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights to a variety of tempting locations and, thanks to guaranteed passage through a time warp, to a variety of tantalizing years in the future. Moscow? 2042? Who could resist? And so begins Vladimir Voinovich's satiric—and, as current events would cast it, prophetic—tale of life in the USSR in the not-so-distant future....