DIXON, RICHARD (EDITOR)(VALENTINA ZHURAVLYOVA; ALEXANDER BELAYEV; ANATOLY DNIEPROV; IGOR ZABELIN; KIRILL STANYUKOVICH; MIKHAIL VASILYEV; ARKADY & BORIS STRUGATSKY)

Destination: Amaltheia

Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1962, First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, with dust jacket. [1st printing, 1962] Mass Market paperback with Dj, art is uncredited over white paper covers. Includes "The Astronaut" by Valentina Zhuravlyova; "Over the Abyss" by Alexander Belayev; "The Maxwell Equations" by Anatoly Dnieprov; "The Valley of the Four Crosses" by Igor Zabelin; "The Golub-yavan" by Kirill Stanyukovich; "Flying Flowers" by Mikhail Vasilyev; "Destination: Amaltheia" by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. Inside front dj flap creased; rubs to front dj panel; creasing; edge and corner nicks and wear. Very Good+ to Near Fine/Very Good+.

Books from the cryptProfessional seller

Book number: UMA472

Catalogue: Science Fiction Paperbacks

Keywords: Science Fiction Anthologies Science Fiction Anthology

Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris, and others

More Soviet Science Fiction

New York, Collier Books, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Collier Books As295v. Collects five stories. Introduction by Isaac Asimov. A fine copy. ; Small octavo. .

Parigi BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37956

Catalogue: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: SCIENCE FICTION, VINTAGE PAPERBACKS, SHORT STORIES, RUSSIAN SCI-FI

Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris (authors), Theodore Sturgeon (introduction)

Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika

New York, MacMillan, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Rarely seen in any condition, this is a rare collectible copy. Certainly the most important of Soviet science-fiction writers are the brothers Strugatsky [Arkady and Boris]. Strugatsky, Arkady and Boris (authors), Theodore Sturgeon (introduction). ROADSIDE PICNIC / TALE OF THE TROIKA. New York: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition in English. First American Edition. 8vo. 245pp. Quarter maroon cloth over blue paper covered boards, stamped silver at the spine. A very fine, fresh example in a very fine bright dust wrapper. A brilliant example of the book which served as the basis for Andrei Tarkovsky's masterful 1979 film, "Stalker," for which the Strugatskys co-wrote the screenplay. Certainly the most important of Soviet science-fiction writers are the brothers Strugatsky [Arkady and Boris] whose popularity extends throughout Europe & America. Their cannon of works illuminates the S-F world & their highlight is Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika translated masterfully by Antonina W. Bouis [Russian: Piknik na obochine]. The preface to the first English & First American edition was written by Theodore Sturgeon. ". The Strugatskys posit that the Earth experiences a brief visit from extraterrestrials, who leave behind them - well, call it litter, such as might be left by you and me (in one of our less socially conscious moments) after a roadside picnic. The nature of these discards, products of an utterly alien technology, defies most earthly logic, to say nothing of earthly analytical science, and their potential is limitless. Warp these potentials into all-too-human goals - the quest for pure knowledge for its own sake, the search for new devices, new techniques, to achieve new heights in human well-being; the striving for profit, with its associated competitiveness; and the ravenous thirst for new and more terrible weapons - and you have the framework of this amazing short novel. Add the Strugatskys' deft and supple handling of loyalty and greed, of friendship and love, of despair and frustration and loneliness, and you have a truly superb tale, ending most poignantly in what can only be called a blessing. You won't forget it. Tale of a Troika is a very different thing indeed--so different that it might have been written by quite different authors - which is the highest possible tribute to the authors' versatility. How much you like it will depend on your taste for satire and lampoon. It is, in nature, reminiscent of Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, with (and here I confess to a highly subjective evaluation) one important difference: Lem's approach and style are, in comparison, unleavened, no matter how deeply he plunges into the surrealistic and the absurd. The cumulative effect is Kafkaesque horror. The Strugatsky fury - and it is fury: disgust with hypocrisy, with bureaucratic bumbling, with self-serving, self-saving distortions of logic and of truth and of initially decent human motivations - their fury is laced with laughter, rich with scorn, effervescent with the comic spirit. One has to search back to Alice's tea party to find a scene as mad as the chamber of the Troika; yet, in retrospect, one realizes that one has experienced a profoundly serious work, since every bent line illuminates a straight one, all illogic signifies the purity from which it has departed. A word of appreciation must be extended to Ms. Antonina W. Bouis, the translator of these short novels. Russian I do not know; fiction I do; and I must honor anyone who can so deftly pass emotion, character dimension, even conversational idiom, through so formidable a barrier". - Theodore Sturgeon, San Diego, California 1976. The story was written by the Strugatsky brothers in 1971 (the first outlines written January 18 - 27, 1971 in Leningrad, with the final version completed between October 28 & November 3, 1971 in Komarovo . It was first published in the Avrora literary magazine in 1972, issues 7 - 10. Parts of it were published in the Library of Modern Science Fiction book series, vol. 25, 1973. It was also printed in the newspaper Youth of Estonia in 1977 -1978. Protected in mylar. .

TBCL The Book Collector's LibraryProfessional seller

Book number: 33430

Catalogue: Electronic List TBCL

Keywords: Speculative & Farthest Out Fictions Russian Literature

STRUGATSKY ARKADY & BORIS

The Snail on the Slope

London, Victor Gollancz. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575027959) Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. excellent near fine book and DW, DW price clipped, translated by Aan Meyers, closed top edge foxed, 243pp. Very Good/Very Good.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003044

Catalogue: Science-Fiction Fantasy & Horror

Keywords: Soviet Russian Science Fiction English Translation Novel First Gollancz Strugatsky 0575027959

STRUGATSKI, ARKADI & BORIS (STRUGATSKY)

Hard to Be a God

New York, NY: Daw Books, 1974. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Kelly Freas. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the cover artist Kelly Freas on the front cover of the book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Noon Universe was described by the authors as the world in which they would like to live and work. 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. At first the authors thought the Noon Universe would become reality "by itself", but then they realized that the only way to achieve it was by inventing the High Theory of Upbringing, making the upbringing of each person a unique deed. One of the important story arcs of those books addresses how the advanced human civilization covertly steers the development of those considered less advanced. Agents of humans are known as Progressors. At the same time, some humans suspect that a very advanced spacefaring race called Wanderers exists and is "progressing" humanity itself. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Illustrator. Very Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 47397

Catalogue: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasay Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky Kelly Freas Signed Edition

STRUGATSKY, ARKADY; STRUGATSKY, BORIS (AUTHORS); BOUIS, ANTONINA W. (TRANSLATOR); STURGEON, THEODORE (INTRODUCTION)

Beetle in the Anthill

New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780026151207). Hardcover. Used, First edition hardcover, with mylar covered clipped dust jacket in very good condition. Page block is tanned, and a few light marks on the FEP. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Very Good/Very Good.

PsychoBabel BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 613266

Catalogue: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: 9780026151207

Strugatsky, Arkady; Strugatsky, Boris; Bouis, Antonina W. (trans); Sturgeon, Theodore

Definitely Maybe

New York, Macmillan, 1978. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. blue cloth spine, silver lettering, black papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 143 pp, slightly soiled to cover Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good/very good.

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 76080

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Science Fiction, Sci-Fi

Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky

Hard To Be A God

DAEDALUS, 2001. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 9781473208292. pgs.246 clean tight copy but for a small tan dot top front inside front cover and on frontpiece Near Fine.

Judith Patton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 288120

Keywords: 9781473208292

ARKADY STRUGATSKY; BORIS STRUGATSKY

Prisoners of Power (Best of Soviet SF)

MacMillan Publishing Company. 1978. (ISBN: 0020255802). Paperback. Book, Very light wear, mainly to edges of covers. Interior has one stamp otherwise clean. Good.

Rainy Day BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 44459

Catalogue: Fantasy/Sci-fi

Keywords: 0020255802

Strugatsky, Arkady; Strugatsky, Boris; Bouis, Antonina W. (trans); Sturgeon, Theodore

Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika

New York, Macmillan, 1977. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. burgundy spine, silver lettering, blue papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 245 pp, slightly soiled to cover, tear on front cover Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good/very good.

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 76079

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Science-Fiction, Sci-Fi