![]() ![]() Luckily, there has been a fairly recent re-release of the brothers’ Arkady and Boris Strugatsky most famous work Roadside Picnic. Gimme some of those Strugatsky brothers that everyone is going on about. What an idiot I had been! A recent trip to Moscow sparked my interest in Russian culture, so I thought, what the heck. After that I hardly touched any book that came from beyond the Iron Curtain, with few exceptions. Blame my immature literary taste buds, but to me, they seemed overly intellectual, a bit cumbersome, boring. Suffice to say, that I was not impressed. I read one of them and browsed a few others. As a kid, I got a box of books from the German Democratic Republic with Soviet and other Eastern Bloc Science Fiction stories (Utopian Novels they were called to avoid the Anglicism). ![]() Of course, it would be easy to blame the Anglo-American dominance in the genre for this, but another reason might have been the ill-timing of my first touchpoints with SF from what was then still (even though barely) the Soviet Union. By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Translated by Olena Bormashenko Read by Robert ForsterĮastern European Science Fiction has not been on my RADAR for decades. ![]()
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