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Prominent Russian Soviet prose writers, film playwrights, co-author brothers, the undisputed leaders of Soviet science fiction over the past three decades and the most famous Soviet science fiction writers abroad (at the beginning of the 1991s - 321 book publications in 27 countries); classics of modern SF, whose influence on its development, in particular in the USSR, is difficult to overestimate.
Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky was born on August 28, 1925 in the city of Batumi, then lived in Leningrad. Father is an art critic, mother is a teacher. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War worked on the construction of fortifications, then in a grenade workshop. At the end of January 1942, he and his father were evacuated from besieged Leningrad. Miraculously, he survived - the only one in the entire carriage. He buried his father in Vologda. I ended up in the city of Chkalov (now Orenburg). In the city of Tashla, Orenburg region, he worked at a milk collection point, and was drafted into the army there. He studied at the Aktobe art school. In the spring of 1943, just before graduation, he was sent to Moscow, to the Military Institute of Foreign Languages. He graduated from it in 1949 with a specialty - translator from English and Japanese languages. Was a teacher at the Kansk School of Military Translators, served as a divisional translator at Far East. Demobilized in 1955. He worked at the Abstract Journal, then as an editor at Detgiz and Gospolitizdat.
Boris Natanovich Strugatsky was born on April 15, 1933 in Leningrad, returned there after evacuation, graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Leningrad State University with a diploma in astronomy, worked at the Pulkovo Observatory; since 1960 - professional writer. Member of the Writers' Union. He published mainly in collaboration with his brother (he is also known for his translations of American SF - in collaboration with his brother, under the pseudonyms S. Pobedin and S. Vitin). 
Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR (1986 - for the script of the film “Letters dead man", together with V. Rybakov and director K. Lopushansky). Permanent leader of the seminar for young science fiction writers at the St. Petersburg Writers' Organization. Lives in St. Petersburg.
Wide fame came to the Strugatsky brothers after the publication of their first SF stories, which were examples of good “hard” (natural science) SF and differed from other works of those years by their greater attention to the psychological development of characters - “Six Matches” (1959), “Test of the TFR” ( 1960), “Private Assumptions” (1960) and others; the majority compiled the collection “Six Matches” (1960). In a number early stories The Strugatsky brothers for the first time successfully tested the method of constructing their own history of the future - the first and to this day remains unsurpassed in Soviet SF. Unlike similar large-scale constructions by R. Heinlein, P. Anderson, L. Niven and other science fiction writers, the near future according to the Strugatskys did not have a clearly defined chronological scheme from the very beginning (it was later restored by enthusiastic readers from research group“The Ludens”), but more attention was paid to the creation of “cross-cutting” characters, moving from book to book and mentioned occasionally. As a result, individual fragments eventually formed into a bright, multicolored, internally evolving and organic mosaic - one of the most significant worlds SF in Russian literature.
Several years ago, the books of the Strugatsky brothers were already published in electronic form and were freely distributed on the RuNet. Then the writers' heirs closed the library as a protest against piracy. And now they changed their minds and returned the texts to free access on the official website.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, or ABS, wrote excellent social science fiction - honest, straightforward. Their works have long been dismantled into quotes. Having read ABS, you can theatrically fall onto the sofa, screaming: “The noble don has been hit in the heel!”
The abbreviation ABS began the tradition of assigning abbreviations to each science fiction book. So PNS - “Monday begins on Saturday”, TBB - “It’s hard to be a god.”
Many literary scholars and simply enthusiastic people advise reading the Strugatskys in chronological order. Lifehacker recommends starting with any book from this list.
1 and 2. NIICHAVO cycle
- Fantasy, satire.
- Year of publication: 1965–1967.
- Place and time of action: Russia, 20th century.
- Reader age: any.
The cycle about the everyday life of employees of the Research Institute of Witchcraft and Wizardry has only one drawback: it consists of only two books. But it is from them that many discover the Strugatskys.
We also recommend that you start easy - with the story “Monday Begins on Saturday” and “The Tale of the Troika.” Scientific can be satirical. And the everyday life of scientists is exciting (even if in the end they have to fight not with science, but with bureaucracy).
3. It's hard to be a god
- Social fiction.
- Place and time of action: outside the Earth, distant future.
- Year of publication: 1964.
- Reader age: any.
This is no longer a laughing matter. The story “It’s Hard to Be a God” is considered one of the iconic works of the Strugatskys - the very embodiment social fiction. Imagine a distant planet stuck in the Middle Ages. Now send historians from our time to this planet and think about how they will help this society achieve a brighter future.
Now imagine that you are the most powerful on the planet and will survive when the world around you collapses. But despite all your strength, power and knowledge, which is ahead of your time, you cannot save everyone. Even the most beloved ones. What would win in you - human or social?
...we know and understand men (...), but none of us would dare to say that he knows and understands women. And children, for that matter! After all, children are, of course, the third special kind intelligent creatures living on Earth.
Boris Strugatsky
By the way, this is one of the few books by the Strugatskys in which there is a leading female character- a rarity for ABS books.
4. Roadside Picnic
- Adventure fiction.
- Year of publication: 1972.
- Place and time of action: Earth, 21st century.
- Reader age: any.
A heavy, dark, pessimistic book. The scene is Earth after. People live lives in which every day there is a threat hanging over them mortal danger, but everyone is already so used to it that they take it as a routine.
What if the aliens are neither friendly humanoids nor giant cockroaches out to destroy Orion's Belt? What if anomalous Zones appear on your planet, into which everyone rushes? Dangerous. Scary. Deadly. But you can feel alive only by avoiding death.
That's right: a person needs money so that he never thinks about it.
Based on this story, Andrei Tarkovsky made the film “Stalker”. Based on it, the developers later released the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series. And now American representatives of the film industry are making a series based on the story.
The book is no more than 180 pages. Read it before the release of the series to understand the gulf that separates modern commercial projects from the completely non-commercial Strugatskys.
5. The doomed city
- Social fiction.
- Place and time of action: another world, indefinite time.
- Year of publication: 1989.
- Reader age: adults.
Precisely doomed, not doomed. ABS named their novel after the painting by Nicholas Roerich, which struck them “with its dark beauty and the feeling of hopelessness that emanated from it.”
roerich-museum.org You agree to the experiment and go into an artificially created world. This time the alien is you. And around you is Babylon, crowded with the same people who have their own vices, knowledge and hidden motives. The world resembles an anthill, into which occasionally someone great pokes a stick to stir up movement. What happens when the experiment gets out of control? What if this is not the first experiment?
The Strugatsky brothers are excellent at combining complex socio-psychological motives and dynamic action in one work. Therefore, they are equally interesting to read for both schoolchildren and professors. social psychology. But if you want to understand what the book is really about, grow up. And then take on “The Doomed City.”
Arkady Strugatsky, the eldest of the famous tandem, was born in Batumi on August 28, 1925. The brothers' parents were prominent representatives of the creative intelligentsia: their mother was a teacher, and their father was an art critic. In Leningrad, eight years later (April 15, 1933), Boris was born - the second half of the creative unit "The Strugatsky Brothers".
Each of them made samples of the pen separately. First story young Arkady, alas, was lost during the blockade. The story entitled “How Kang Died,” which was written in 1946, was published only in 2001.
By the 50s, Boris also became involved in literary exercises, but the brothers achieved their most impressive successes as co-authors. Their first common story, entitled “From the Outside,” was published in the magazine “Technology for Youth” in 1958. Later this work was developed to the scale of a story.
Started as a bet with the wife of Arkady Strugatsky, the brothers’ first serious joint book was published in 1959 - “The Country of Crimson Clouds.” The co-authors form their own style, and a recognizable, characteristic theme of their work appears.
It would take a long time to list the iconic works of the Strugatskys that had an incredible influence on the minds of their contemporaries and descendants. Among them is “Predatory Things of the Century,” which in 1965 expressively showed the choice between a very bad and a bad option. And Monday Begins on Saturday, the book that inspired the movie The Magicians.
Enormous success with the audience did not provide the Strugatskys with a comfortable life: Soviet censorship began to infringe on them, and in the 70s the path to publication became practically closed for them. For "The Tale of Troika" the magazine "Angara" is closed, "Snail on the Slope" is not allowed for publication, and the original text " Inhabited island"The censors made almost a thousand edits.
“Roadside Picnic” was also badly crippled by the censors, based on which the brothers later created the script for the film “Stalker” by Tarkovsky. The composition of “Lame of Fate” is very interesting - a very autobiographical book, main character which he even received as a gift the authorship of another masterpiece of the Strugatskys - the story “Ugly Swans”. Released in 1990 last play Strugatsky - "The Jews of the City of St. Petersburg."
In 1991, Arkady died, and Boris continued his writing activity under the pseudonym S. Vititsky - he created two more wonderful books. On November 19, 2012, the second brother also died.
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Director of NIICHAVO. One in two persons. An administrator slowly becoming a great scientist. Has a habit of starting a conversation with the word: “So.”
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Projectionist NIICHAVO.
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Born in 1938, Russian, member of the Komsomol. Wears glasses. When we first met him, he was wearing a gray GDR jacket and jeans striped with lightning. Smokes. Drives a car. At NIICHAVO he holds the position of head of the computer laboratory. Lives in the institute's dormitory. Shares a room with Viktor Korneev. While working at the institute, I grew a beard. At the time of the events described, he was not married.
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Specialist in nuclear-powered transport vehicles, who worked for many years in the Gobi Desert. Receives an offer to participate in the planned expedition to Venus, agrees and becomes a member of the crew of the experimental photon planetary spacecraft “Hius-2”. After the expedition he returns to Earth and enters the High school cosmogation. He goes from a transport specialist to a famous captain of interplanetary spaceships. One of the main characters in the story “The Country of Crimson Clouds” and other works of the “pre-noon” cycle.
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An underground worker, a former psychiatrist professor, a former prisoner, repressed by the regime.
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Authorized agent of the Bureau of Emigration. He agitated Harmont residents to leave the vicinity of the Zone.
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Freed Ghoul. Caretaker of the vivarium NIICHAVO.
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Secretary and mistress of A.M. Voronin.
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Doctor of Science, professor. Scientific consultant of Troika. He cuts his hair into a bowl cut so that no one can see his ears.
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“A short, slender man, very pale and completely gray-haired, although judging by his face, thin, with clear, regular features, he could not be given more than thirty-five years old.” Commander of the planetary spaceship "Hius" and head of the first expedition to Venus in search of the "Uranium Golconda".
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Scavenger, policeman, editor, senator, participant in Operation Zigzag; V real life- star astronomer.
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School friend of Anton and Pashka.
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Revolutionary and professional rebel, leader of many uprisings. Previously, he was rescued by Rumata using a helicopter. One of the few who know Anton's real identity.
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Son of Burbridge the Vulture. Was “begged” by dad from the Golden Ball.
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Friend of Don Rumata. Full name Pampa don Bau no Suruga no Gatta no Arkanara. A wealthy aristocrat from the provinces.
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Worker in the glove compartment by Richard G. Noonan.
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One of the heroes of the story "The Country of Crimson Clouds".
Pilot, one of the best astronauts in the world. Participant of the first expeditions to the asteroid belt.
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The head of all criminal forces across the Strait. He collaborated with both Don Rumata and Don Reba.
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Janitor in the City.
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Employee of the Department of Universal Transformations. Master's degree "Big fellow." "Rude". Lives in the institute's dormitory. Shares a room with Alexander Privalov.
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Employee of the Inaccessible Problems Department. Works in the laboratory of Roman Oira-Oira. Master's degree A native of the city of Murmansk. Red-bearded, without mustache. Smokes.
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"A remarkable geologist and experienced interplanetary traveler." The hero of the works of the "forenoon" cycle. Planetologist. Bykov's friend.
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Senior member of the null transport testing team.
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The main character of the Strugatsky brothers' story "The Guy from the Underworld", a resident of the planet Giganda, a third-year cadet of the "School of Fighting Cats" - a military school located in the capital of the Alay Duchy, training special forces soldiers.
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One of the heroes of the story "Inhabited Island".
Private of the Battle Guard on Saraksh.
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Born in 2104. While studying at the Anyuda boarding school in 2118, he planned a flight to Venus together with his friends: Mikhail Sidorov (Athos), Paul Gnedykh and Alexander Kostylin (Lin), but Teacher Tenin revealed their plan in time. Received a Doctor of Science degree in xenopsychology. In 2133 he was the head of the expedition to Leonida, which established the first contact with the Leonidians. However, having discovered the first signs of intelligent life on the planet, Komov decided to immediately leave the planet and provided the opportunity to establish contact with COMCON workers. Around 2162, he became the head of COMCON and personally coordinated the project “Golovans in Space.” Participated in the "Big Revelation". In 2199, together with Leonid Gorbovsky, he represented people in negotiations with the people.
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Professional boxer in real life, advisor to the President of the Glass House.
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Real name is Digga. Senior mentor, officer. The commander of the unit in which Gag serves. Features in the story "The Guy from the Underworld".
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Bug. Inhabitant of the Colony of Unexplained Phenomena at NIICHAVO.
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One of the heroes of the story "Inhabited Island".
One of senior officials regime of the Unknown Fathers, head of the justice system, weaving intrigues against the Traveler.
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One of the heroes of the story "The Country of Crimson Clouds".
Bykov's friend, a geologist, had previously worked on expeditions with Bykov, a participant in the first flight to Venus in search of the semi-mythical "Uranium Golconda".
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Found in the story "Trainees".
Son of Alexey Bykov.
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Red Shewhart's wife and the object of his constant concern.
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Negro, Red's friend, coordinator of the Militant Angels society.
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Orderly of Colonel St. James, participant in Operation Zigzag.
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A young man from Giganda who is interested in mathematics. Civil. Pacifist. The hero of the story "The Guy from the Underworld".