Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were acclaimed and beloved science fiction writers of the Soviet era. Together they wrote 25 novels, including Roadside Picnic, Snail on the Slope, Hard to Be a God, Monday Begins on Saturday and Definitely Maybe, as well as short fiction, essays, plays and film scripts.
From Beyond
novella
translated by ?
Soviet Literature 1, 1982, pp. 8-36
The Land of Crimson Clouds (1959)
novel (set in the Noon Universe)
not translated
The Way to Amalthea (Destination: Amaltheia) (1959)
novel
translated by ?
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1963
Noon: 22nd Century (1961)
novel/collection of linked stories (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Patrick L. McGuire
Macmillan, 1978
Space Apprentice (Probationers) (1962)
novel (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Antonina L. Bouis
Macmillan, 1981
Escape Attempt (1962) (includes Space Mowgli (1971) and The Kid From Hell (1974))
novella (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Roger DeGaris
Macmillan, 1982
Far Rainbow (1963)
novel (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Macmillan, 1979
Hard to be a God (1964)
novel (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Wendayne Ackerman (Seabury Press, 1973)
translated by Olena Bormashenko (Chicago Review Press, 2014)
Monday Starts on Saturday (1965)
novel
translated by Leonid Renen (DAW Books, 1977)
translated by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, 2016)
The Final Circle of Paradise (1965)
novel
translated by ? (DAW, 1976)
The Snail on the Slope (1966-68)
novel
translated by Alan Meyers (Gollancz, 1980)
translated by Olena Bormashenko (Chicago Review Press, 2018)
The Ugly Swans (written 1966-67; first published 1972)
novel
translated by Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky (Macmillan, 1979)
Lame Fate/Ugly Swans [new translation]
novellas
translated by Maya Vinokour (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
The Second Invasion From Mars (1968)
novella
translated by Antonina W. Bouis (Macmillan, 1979)
Tale of the Troika (1968)
novella
translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson (Macmillan, 1977)
Prisoners of Power (1969)
novel
translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson (Macmillan, 1977)
The Inhabited Island [new translation of uncensored version of Prisoners of Power]
novel
translated by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
Roadside Picnic (1972)
novel
translated by Antonina W. Bouis (Macmillan, 1977)
translated by Olena Bormashenko (Chicago Review Press, 2012)
Definitely Maybe (1977)
novel
translated by? (Macmillan, 1978)
translated by Antonina W. Bouis (Melville House, 2014)
The Doomed City (written 1975, published 1989)
novel
translated by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, 2016)
The Beetle in the Anthill (1979)
novel (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Antonina W. Bouis (Macmillan, 1980)
translated by Olena Bormashenko (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
The Time Wanderers (1985)
novel (set in the Noon Universe)
translated by Antonina W. Bouis (Richardson and Steirman, 1987)
newly translated as The Waves Extinguish the Wind
translated by Daniels Umanovskis (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
