The Strugatsky Brothers

The writer “the Strugatsky brothers”—one figure in two persons—is a special phenomenon for several generations of our intelligentsia. The words coming from their lips captured the imagination of millions. Their books instantly became bestsellers. For decades, the educated class saw the future through their eyes. They wrote science fiction—such as we had not seen before—but they aimed at reality, and people “decoded” their Aesopian language, reading their novels for quotes.
The authors tell how the writing duo of the Strugatsky brothers came to be—how, bursting into literature from nowhere, they immediately became leaders and masters of our science fiction—and also how difficult and at the same time how easy it is to write books together. Special credibility is provided by the program of numerous excerpts from the memoirs of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, which comment on the key events of their lives and reveal curious details about the creation of their most famous novels and stories.