literackie-beefy: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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The brothers Arkady Strugatsky (28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris Strugatsky (14 April 1933 – 19 November 2012) were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers. In the second half of the 1950s, military translator A. N. Strugatsky, with the assistance of journalist Lev Petrov and writer and intelligence officer Roman Kim, published the documentary novella Ashes of Bikini (journal versions in 1956 and 1957, book edition in 1958) and secured a position as an editor at Goslitizdat. B. N. Strugatsky, who worked at the Pulkovo Observatory, also harbored literary ambitions; according to legend, the brothers decided to write together on a be…

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The Strugatsky brothers, Arkady and Boris, were Soviet-era writers best known for their science fiction novellas and novels who wrote about fifty short stories and other short-form works between 1955 and 1963. The first completed work by Arkady Strugatsky whose manuscript has survived is the short story How Kang Died, written in 1946. Boris Strugatsky's first literary experiments date to the mid-1950s. Around 1955, the brothers attempted to develop a technique for working together, resulting in the short story Sand Fever, which was only published in 1991. Subsequently, the Strugatsky brothers worked in parallel on major-form works (novellas and novels) and continued to write short stories,…