James Nicoll Reviews

Decaying capitalism meets triumphant bourgeois ideology in a Soviet-era classic

Roadside Picnic

By Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky

24 Sep, 2014

**Translation**

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I should be better read in the Strugatsky Brothers’ oeuvre than I actually am so when I get the chance to read something of theirs, particularly a modern translation, I take advantage of it.

Hard to Be a God

By Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky (Translated by Olena Bormashenko)

20 Aug, 2014

**Translation**

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In the olden times of the long long ago, Don A. Wollheim turned his new company, DAW Books, to importing, translating and publishing foreign SF. This interesting experiment was not rewarded with glowing sales and eventually the experiment was dropped.