Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, trans. from the Russian by Olena Bormashenko. Chicago Review (IPG, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61374-828-2 Bormashenko’s rewarding new translation of this ...

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky coauthored the 1971 science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. A great truth is this: Some discoveries, like the sting of a painful memory, do a number on your psyche.

During the Stalin years, there were tight restrictions on science fiction in the Soviet Union. Writers were pressured and boxed in, urged to stick to themes of adventure, space travel and the glowing ...

A conversation with translator Olena Bormashenko. Scouring the sci-fi shelves of secondhand bookstores in the 1970s, I always kept an eye out for titles coming from Elsewhere. On one such shelf I came ...

Mikhail Baranov/Global Look Press Writer of iconic novels took the USSR by storm alongside his brother Arkady Strugatsky was born on Aug. 28, 1925 in Batumi before moving to Leningrad (now St.

It has grossed more than $1.3bn (£800m) worldwide, wowed the critics, and spawned a new generation of fans, the so-called Avatards, who have taken to painting their faces blue. But the film director ...

Vladimir Putin and Russia's liberal opposition who accuse him of growing authoritarianism have came together to mourn the death of Boris Strugatsky, a science fiction author famous for novels critical ...

A great truth is this: Some discoveries, like the sting of a painful memory, do a number on your psyche. Definitely Maybe accomplishes just that. It's one for those with a penchant for the strange, ...

During the Stalin years, there were tight restrictions on science fiction in the Soviet Union. Writers were pressured and boxed in, urged to stick to themes of adventure, space travel and the glowing ...