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 slim 1964 novel makes available a regrettably obscure Cold War–era hybrid of SF and satire. Anton is disguised as aristocratic Don Rumata and sent to the archaic planet Arkanar by enlightened Communist
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, trans. from the Russian by Olena Bormashenko. Chicago Review, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-914091-87-5
The Strugatsky brothers (Monday Starts on Saturday) wrote this intensely surreal science fiction picaresque in the 1960s, but its complete text was not published in Russia until 1988; since the Kafkaesque bureaucratic maze that takes up half the...
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Chicago Review, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-61373-596-1
Mysterious idealists trample individuality in a Kafkaesque world where disillusioned humans are taken from the 20th century and brought to a strange city where they’re reduced to components in a maddeningly undefinable system. In a city where the...
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, trans. from the Russian by Olena Bormashenko. Chicago Review, $15.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-61374-341-6
Since its 1972 appearance in Russia, the Strugatsky brothers’ novel has been published worldwide, inspired Andrei Tarkovsky’s memorable film Stalker, and been the basis for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video games. As this vivid new translation demonstrates,...
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, trans. from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Chicago, $15.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61373-923-5
The Strugatsky brothers are best known by English-reading SF fans for the novel Roadside Picnic, but this delightful 1964 fantasy-comedy remains their most popular work in Russia, and it’s easy to see why. Sasha Privalov, a young computer programmer,
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Arkady Strugatsky, Author, Antonina W. Bouis, Translator, Boris Strugatsky, With Eagle Publishing Corporation. $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-931933-31-8
The best known of Soviet SF writers, the Strugatsky brothers (Hard to Be a God, etc.) in this novel envision a future world communist state whose Progressors travel to other stars to give less advanced aliens aid and guidance they never requestedbut
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