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Thread: Boris Strugatsky (1933 – 2012)
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2012-11-22, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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Boris Strugatsky (1933 – 2012)
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One of the last great Eastern European SF/Fantasy writers, Boris Strugatsky died two days ago, surviving his co-writing brother Arkady by 22 years. He was probably one of top 5 fantasy tales authors living and writing in Soviet aligned territory.
If never heard of them, Stalker movie, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series games, books The Roadside Picnic, Hard to Be a God - all were based on their work.Come one, come all! GitP MLP Steam Group is open!
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2012-11-22, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Re: Boris Strugatsky (1933 – 2012)
Damn, I just read Roadside Picnic for the first time a couple months ago. Seriously brilliant work, I wish more of the Strugatsky's work was available in English.
Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, 1906.
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2012-11-22, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Re: Boris Strugatsky (1933 – 2012)
Are any of the stars of Russian sci-fi alive anymore? The Strugatskys are dead, Bulychev is dead, Bulgakov is long dead... I'll miss them.
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2012-11-22, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)Colossus in the Playground
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Re: Boris Strugatsky (1933 – 2012)
It was a shame that Boris refused to finish the things the brothers were working on before Arkady died, and even more of a shame that there are so many rubbish books set in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Zone - even though they're three degrees of adaptation away, they still cheapen Picnic by being lousy.
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Originally Posted by Artanis
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2012-11-22, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)Troll in the Playground
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Re: Boris Strugatsky (1933 – 2012)
Well, there is new generation, but I think every great Polish and Russian SF writers of these times is gone Originally Posted by Tengu_temp
Also, a bit more information in tribute article of who he was for others that didn't heard of Strugatski brothers.Come one, come all! GitP MLP Steam Group is open!
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