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The Time Wanderers / The Waves Extinguish the Wind

1986

Library edition: April 2023, 2nd English language edition

Chicago Review Press

ISBN 978-1-64160-626-4

Trade paperback, 177 pages

$19.99 / C$26.99

Notes:

  •  Originally titled in English The Time Wanderers.

  •  Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  'Noon' / 'Maxim Kammerer' series #3.

  •  Translated by Daniels Umanovskis.

The Beetle in the Anthill

1979

Library edition: April 2013, 2nd English language edition

Chicago Review Press

ISBN 978-1-64160-678-3

Trade paperback, 229 pages

$19.99 / C$26.99

Notes:

  •  Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  'Noon' / 'Maxim Kammerer' series #2.

  •  Translated by Olena Bormashenko.

The Doomed City

1989

Library edition: July 2017 edition

Gollancz

ISBN 978-1-4732-2228-1

B-format paperback, xiii+462 pages

£9.99

Notes:

  •  Foreword by Dmitry Glukhovsky.

  •  Translated by Andrew Bromfield.

One Billion Years to the End of the World

1976

Library edition: August 2020 edition, 1st printing

Penguin Books

ISBN 978-1-4732-0873-5

Paperback, 160 pages

£8.99

Notes:

  •  Originally titled in English Definitely Maybe.

  •  Translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

The Ugly Swans

1972

<  July 1979, 1st English language edition

Macmillan

ISBN 978-1-4732-0873-5

Hardcover, 234 pages

$9.95

Notes:

  •  Translated by Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky.

Roadside Picnic

1972

Library edition: June 2014 edition

Gollancz

ISBN 978-1-4732-0873-5

B-format paperback, 209 pages

£7.99

Notes:

  •  Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin, Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  Translated by Olena Bormashenko.

The Inhabited Island

1971

<  April 2021 edition

Gollancz

ISBN 978-1-4732-3244-0

B-format paperback, 405 pages

£12.99

Notes:

  •  Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  Originally titled in English Prisoners of Power.

  •  'Noon' / 'Maxim Kammerer' series #1.

  •  Translated by Andrew Bromfield.

The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn

1970

Library edition: March 2015, 1st English language edition

Melville House

No ISBN

PDF, 256 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.

  •  Translated by Josh Billings.

The Snail on the Slope

1968

<  October 2019 edition

Gollancz

ISBN 978-1-4732-2828-3

B-format paperback, viii+248 pages

£9.99

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Adam Roberts, Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  Translated by Olena Bormashenko.

The Final Circle of Paradise

1965

<  November 1976, 1st English language edition

DAW Books

ISBN 0-87997-264-5

Paperback, 172 pages

$1.25

Notes:

  •  Introduction and translated by Leonid Renen.

  •  'Noon' / 'Yurkovsky & Zhilin' series.

Monday Starts on Saturday

1965

Library edition: April 2016 edition, 5th printing

Gollancz

ISBN 978-1-4732-0221-4

B-format paperback, xi+243 pages

£9.99

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Adam Roberts, Author's Note by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  Translated by Andrew Bromfield, Author's Note translated by James Womack.

Hard to Be a God

1964

Library edition: April 2015 edition, 1st printing

Gollancz

ISBN 978-1-4732-0829-2

B-format paperback, viii+246 pages

£9.99

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Ken MacLeod, Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  Translated by Olena Bormashenko.

Space Apprentice

1962

<  April 1981 edition, 1st English language edition

Gollancz

ISBN 0-02-615220-7

Hardcover, xiii+231 pages

$11.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.

  •  'Noon' / 'Yurkovsky & Zhilin' series.

  •  Translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

Аркадий Стругацкий  |  Arkady Strugatsky

Collections

Legal name:  Стругацкий, Аркадий Натанович

Transliterated name: Strugatsky, Arkady Natanovich

Birth place:  Batumi, Georgia, USSR

Birth date:  28 August 1925

Death date:  12 October 1991

Language:  Russian

Bibliographic comments:  See also Boris Strugatsky, Igor Goriatchev. Also as by S. Yaroslavtsev.

Biographic comments:  

Novels

Noon: 22nd Century

1962

Library edition: October 1978, 1st edition

Macmillan

No ISBN

PDF, 186 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.

  •  'Noon' series #1.

  •  Translated by Patrick L. McGuire.

Fiction: Night on Mars  //  Almost the Same  //  Old Timer  //  The Conspirators  //  Chronicle  //  Two from the Taimyr  //  

The Moving Roads  //  Cornucopia  //  Homecoming  //  Languor of the Spirit  //  The Assaultmen  //  Deep Search  //  

The Mystery of the Hind Leg  //  Candles Before the Control Board  //  Natural Science in the Spirit World  //  Pilgrims

and Wayfarers  //  The Planet with All the Conveniences  //  Defeat  //  The Meeting  //  What You Will Be Like

Far Rainbow / The Second Invasion from Mars

1979

<  November 1979, 1st edition

Macmillan

ISBN 978-0-345-46062-2

Hardcover, 321 pages

$14.95

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.

  •  Translated by Roger DeGaris.

Fiction: Far Rainbow  //  The Second Invasion from Mars

Escape Attempt

1982

<  May 1982, 1st edition

Macmillan

ISBN 978-0-345-46062-2

Hardcover, 321 pages

$14.95

Notes:

  •  Translated by Roger DeGaris.

Fiction: Escape Attempt  //  The Kid from Hell  //  Space Mowgli

Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika

1977

<  May 1977, 1st English language edition

Macmillan

ISBN 0-02-615170-7

Hardcover, ix+245 pages

$8.25

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Theodore Sturgeon.

  •  Translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

  •  Omnibus edition of Roadside Picnic (1972) and Tale of the Troika (1968).

Omnibus editions

Lame Fate / Ugly Swans

2020

<  August 2020, 1st English language edition

Chicago Review Press

ISBN 978-1-64160-071-2

Trade paperback, 400 pages

$18.99

Notes:

  •  Afterword by Boris Strugatsky.

  •  Translated by Maya Vinokour.

  •  Omnibus edition of Lame Fate (1989) and Ugly Swans (1972).

Alien Zones

2014

<  October 2014, 1st English language edition

Chicago Review Press / SFBC

No ISBN

Hardcover

$18.99

Notes:

  •  Foreword by Hari Kunzru.

  •  Translated by Olena Bormashenko.

  •  Probably an SFBC exclusive omnibus hardcover of two titles issued by Chicago Review Press separately.

  •  Omnibus edition of Roadside Picnic (1972) and Hard to Be a God (1964).