Questions tagged [strugatsky-brothers]
Questions about the works of the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky or their lives as writers. Their most famous works include "Hard to Be a God", "Roadside Picnic", "Monday Begins on Saturday", and the Noon Universe cycle. Questions about their works should also be tagged with [russian-language] along with the work in question.
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How culturally mixed were the Earth ambassadors in Hard to Be a God?
Anton, aka "Don Rumata of Estor", is Russian.
Pashka, aka "Don Hug, first groom of the chamber of his lordship the Duke of Irukan", is Russian.
Alexander Vassilevitch, aka "Don Kondor, Supreme Judge ...
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Indeed, why doesn't the City have any great artists?
The city is an interesting place - an ensemble of people from all around the world, and even from different times (though the 20th century seems to be prevalent).
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What is the symbolism of the statues and the meeting at the Pantheon in "The Doomed City"?
In part 5 of Strugastkys' The Doomed City, when Andrei and his group find the central square, there are countless empty places where statues used to be, and all of them have strange writings.
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What explains Maxim Kammerer's superhuman physical condition in "Prisoners of Power" (aka "The Inhabited Island")?
Throughout the novel, Maxim is shown to have an almost superhuman physical condition, easily performing unthinkable feats, which include, but aren't limited to
Being able to run for a very long time ...
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Please help identify a fanfic-y apocryphal story based on Noon Universe
I've been trying to find this one for several years but somehow Google-fu was weak.
Pretty old - I think I read it in early/mid 90s. Internet-published.
Apocryphal mishmash of entire Noon universe
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