In the mid-1950s, the brothers began to write fiction, and soon published their first jointly written novel, From Beyond. Boris studied astronomy at Leningrad State University, and worked as an astronomer and computer engineer. He served as an interpreter in the Far East before returning to Moscow in 1955. Arkady was drafted into the Soviet army and studied at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, graduating in 1949 as an interpreter from English and Japanese. Boris remained in Leningrad with their mother throughout the war. When the city was besieged by the Germans during World War II, Arkady and their father, Natan, were evacuated to the countryside. The brothers were born and raised in Leningrad, the sons of a critic and a teacher. 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.”ĪRKADY (1925–1991) and BORIS (1933–2012) STRUGATSKY were the most acclaimed and beloved science fiction writers of the Soviet era.
“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.
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