Arkady Strugatsky: Definitely Maybe

ANTONINA W. BOUIShas translated many Russian writers, including Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Tatyana Tolstoya, Sergei Dovlatov, and Andrei Sakharov.

“One of the Strugatsky brothers is descended from Gogol and the other from Chekhov, but nobody is sure which is which. Together they have now proved quite definitely that a visit from a gorgeous blonde, from a disappearing midget, from your mother-in-law, and from the secret police, are all manifestations of a cosmic principle of homeostasis, maybe. This is definitely, not maybe, a beautiful book.”

“Surely one of the best and most provocative novels I have ever read, in or out of sci-fi.”

“Provocative, delicately paced and set against a rich physical and psychological background, this is one of the best novels of the year.”

“It’s a book with an extraordinary atmosphere—and a demonstration of how science fiction, by using a single bold central metaphor, can open up the possibilities of the novel.”

“Gritty and realistic but also fantastical, this is a novel you won’t easily put down—or forget.”

“It has survived triumphantly as a classic.”

“The Strugatsky brothers demonstrate that they are realists of the fantastic inasmuch as realism in fantasy betokens a respect for logical consequence, an honesty in deducing all conclusions entirely from the assumed premises.”

“[In writing Gun, with Occasional Music ], I fused the Chandler/Ross MacDonald voice with those rote dystopia moves that I knew backwards and forwards from my study of Ballard, Dick, Orwell, Huxley, and the Brothers Strugatsky.”

“Successive generations of Russian intellectuals were raised on the Strugatskys. Their books can be read with a certain pair of spectacles on as political commentaries on Soviet society or indeed any repressive society.”

“Their protagonists are often caught up in adventures not unlike those of pulp-fiction heroes, but the story line typically veers off in unpredictable directions, and the intellectual puzzles that animate the plots are rarely resolved. Their writing has an untidiness that is finally provocative; they open windows in the mind and then fail to close them all, so that, putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck.”

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THE TRAIN

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FAITHFUL RUSLAN

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THE PRESIDENT

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SNOWBALL’S CHANCE

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FUTILITY

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THE REVERBERATOR

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THE RIGHT WAY TO DO WRONG

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I AWAIT THE DEVIL’S COMING

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