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Arkady Strugatsky was born 25 August 1925 in Batumi; the family later moved to Leningrad. In January 1942, Arkady and his father were evacuated from the Siege of Leningrad , but Arkady was the only survivor in his train car; his father died upon reaching Vologda .
The song "Allegry" from the album Коварство и любовь by the Soviet rock band Agatha Christie was taken from the novel, which is, in its turn, taken from the book Creativity of the mentally ill and its influence on the development of science, art and technology by Russian psychiatrist Pavel Karpov . [4] [5] [6]
The novel tells the story of Gack, a teenage boy from Giganda.Gack is a cadet commando in Fighting Cats: an elite army unit of the Alai Duchy.In the first chapter of the novel, Gack is mortally wounded in a dogfight with an attacking tank unit of the army of the Empire.
Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, romanized: Piknik na obochine, IPA: [pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbot͡ɕɪnʲe]) is a philosophical science fiction novel by the Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that was written in 1971 and published in 1972. It is their most popular and most widely translated novel outside the ...
A spaceship, propelled by a prototype photon engine, sets off for Venus, which is then an enigmatic and unexplored planet that is covered by clouds.The tasks of the crew are to test the prototype engine in field conditions and to locate and set radio beacons on the so called "Uranium Golconda" (a place with incredibly large heavy metals deposits) that is presumably found somewhere on the ...
The Brothers Strugatsky conceived the idea for the novel in 1970. The working book title was "Operation MOWGLI", however was eventually published under the title Kid.Boris Strugatsky admitted that the brothers did not like the title, which was only chosen as the official name because the publisher wanted it.
Escape Attempt (Russian: Попытка к бегству, romanized: Popytka k begstvu) is a 1962 science fiction novel by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe. The English translation was published in a single volume with the other Noon universe stories Space Mowgli and The Kid from Hell .
The Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, however, being for the most part free of political commentary, reached publication with only minor adjustments made by censors of the time. The first publication saw the novel's gangsters transformed into neo-Nazis, and a 1983 edition saw several cuts and edits made in a children's edition, in an effort to ...