Arkady Strugatsky
Birth date: August 28, 1925
Died: October 12, 1991
Arkady Strugatsky's Books
The more I think about this book the better it gets. It starts rather abruptly with a prologue that shows three youngsters wandering around a wilderness to no real purpose. The real function of this prologue isn't clear until the epilogue... Then suddenly everyone has grown up and we're on a dif...
Just started re-reading this yesterday and am already gripped. It's truly unsettling in the most understated of ways. It reminds me a little of John Wyndham's work; it has a similar quality of matter-of-factness about it that somehow makes it all the more chilling.Pure literary gold...strangely put ...
I really loved this book, and it's hard for me to put into words why. A lot of it has to do with the atmosphere and the prose. But I also loved how the setting is almost a character itself and loved seeing how all the other characters related to it.It's interesting to see a story that focuses on how...
Completely bizarre...so just like Roadside Picnic, then...except, no, bizarre in a totally different way... I feel a bit dense because it took until near the end for me to figure out what the allegorical/satirical point behind it all was. Having done so, I'm surprised it got published at all in the ...
“You’re still alive, but you brought another work of Satan into this world.” Artefact looting in the Zone of inexplicability. The remains of an alien visitation have been found and everyone is on the make. This is not humanity’s finest hour. We follow looter Redrick Schuhart on several inadvisable t...
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