Hard To Be A God

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

From Shelf: Damn Fine by Any Measure - just good things

Another SF Masterwork from the giants of Soviet science fiction, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere with the natural progress of history. His place is to observe rather than interfere - but can he remain aloof in the face of so much cruelty and injustice ...?