Introducing “Comments on the Ones Passed”—a collection by Boris Strugatsky. The complete story of how the works by the Strugatsky brothers were created. Listeners will learn about the literary “kitchen” of famous science-fiction writers: how the ideas for stories and novels were born, how the texts were created, how the works broke through under the pressure of Soviet censorship, and much, much more.
By no means should these notes be viewed as “Memoirs of the Lived Experience,” and, especially, as memoirs of the kind “Our Life in Literature.” There are no grounds for that. My life (and, perhaps, AN as well)—thank God!—by no means abounded in either thrilling adventures, mysterious events, socially significant actions, or—even—close contact with great people of the 20th century. So I have no one and nothing to write memoirs about, and these “Comments” are nothing more than, as systematically as possible, notes regarding what ABS wrote over thirty-five years—things that seemed to me (personally to me!) interesting; or were clearly unknown to the general public; or are answers to readers’ questions accumulated over all these years. Boris Strugatsky (c)