Awards and Nominations
- The novel was nominated for a John W. Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of 1978 and won second place.
- In 1978 the Strugatskys were accepted as honorary members of the Mark Twain Society for their "outstanding contribution to world science fiction literature."
- A 1979 Scandinavian congress on science fiction literature awarded the Swedish translation the Jules Verne prize for best novel of the year published in Swedish.
- In 1981 at the sixth festival of science fiction literature in Metz the novel won the award for best foreign book of the year.
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