Arkady Strugatsky

Prolific and clever at getting by the Soviet censors, the Strugatsky brothers brought us fascinating tales of alien intelligences guiding Earth’s evolution, time travel, space exploration, and much more. Arkady Strugatsky, a technical translator and editor, and his brother Boris, a computer mathematician at Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, are often regarded as the greatest Russian science fiction authors of the 20th century.