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The story follows Andrei Voronin, a dedicated young astronomer from 1950s Leningrad who "volunteers" for an Experiment in a mysterious, gravity-defying City. The City's inhabitants are pulled from different times and nations, and their jobs are assigned by a random lottery.

The final trek across the desert toward the unknown is one of the most haunting endings in literature, suggesting that the "Experiment" is actually the internal growth of the individual.