page_title: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
section_title: Life and work
hierarchical_section_title: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky / Life and work
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Amazing Stories, May 1959
context_page_description: The brothers Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky and Boris Natanovich Strugatsky were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
context_section_description: The Strugatsky brothers (братья Стругацкие or simply Стругацкие) were born to Natan Strugatsky, an art critic, and his wife, a teacher. Their father was Jewish and their mother was Russian Orthodox. Their early work was influenced by Ivan Yefremov and Stanisław Lem. Later they went on to develop their own, unique style of science fiction writing that emerged from the period of Soviet rationalism in Soviet literature and evolved into novels interpreted as works of social criticism.
  Their best-known novel, Piknik na obochine,  has been translated into English as Roadside Picnic.  Andrei Tarkovsky adapted the novel for the screen as Stalker (1979).
  Algis Budrys compared their "An Emergency Case" and Arkady's "Wanderers and Travellers" to that of Eando Binder. Several other of their fiction works were translated into English, German, French, and Italian, but did not receive the same magnitude of critical acclaim as that granted by their Russian audiences. The Strugatsky brothers, however, were and still are popular in many countries, including Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, the former republics of Yugoslavia, and Germany, where most of their works were available in both East and West Germany. They are well-known Russian science fiction writers with a well-developed fan base.
  The Strugatsky brothers were Guests of Honour at Conspiracy '87, the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention, held in Brighton, England.
  In 1991, Text Publishers brought out the collected works by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
caption: A translated Strugatsky story appeared in Amazing Stories in 1959
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