Algis Budrys compared their "An Emergency Case" and Arkady's "Wanderers and Travellers" to the work of Eando Binder.

[2] Several other of their fiction works were translated into English, German, French, and Italian, but did not receive the same magnitude of critical acclaim as that granted by their Russian audiences.

[citation needed] The Strugatsky brothers were Guests of Honour at Conspiracy '87, the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention, held in Brighton, England.

He trained first at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk and later at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese.

Born 14 April 1933, Boris Strugatsky remained in Leningrad with his mother during the siege of the city during World War II.

He graduated from high school in 1950 and applied to the physics department at Leningrad State University, but studied astronomy instead.

For instance, this world knows no monetary stimulation (indeed, money does not exist), and every person is engaged in a profession that interests him or her.

The Earth of the Noon Universe is governed by a global meritocratic council composed of the world's leading scientists and philosophers.

It became highly influential for at least a generation of Soviet people, e.g., a person could quote the Strugatsky books and be sure of being understood.