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Apr 29, 2024 · Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Noon 22nd Century. April 29, 2024. I’m increasingly impressed as I work my way through my collection of old Eastern European science fiction, which has been gathering dust since before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
May 8, 2024 · Plucked out of Stalinist Russia by the mysterious and possibly alien Mentors, he has to use every single skill honed by his experiences of surviving both war and Stalin to navigate, thrive in and eventually attempt to escape the doomed City. The Doomed City, Akady and Boris Strugatsky. This edition Gollancz.
Russian sci-fi author Boris Strugatsky died last night of heart failure at the age of 79. With his brother Arkady he co-wrote (and often adapted to the screen) the novels Roadside Picnic, Monday Starts of Saturday, Hard to be God, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle), etc.
4 days ago · In this episode of What to do and Who's to blame of the Russian Literature, I'm looking at the best that Soviet science fiction has to offer - Strugatsky bro...
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I would say that "Ugly swans" is more similar to the "Roadside Picnic" and overall quite a solid Strugatsky brothers novel. While the "Lame fate" is more similar to the "Monday Starts on Saturday" - a little bit more "absurd" in it's setting and themes.
Apr 22, 2024 · April 22, 2024 by Biblioklept. Hard to Be a God, Arkadi & Boris Strugatski. Translation by Wendayne Ackerman. Daw Books, first edition, first printing (1973). Cover art by Kelly Freas. 205 pages.
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products.
