Tag Archives: Chicago Review Press

Review: Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

translated by Andrew Bromfield original publication (in Russian): 1964 first English edition: 1977, DAW this edition: 2016, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library I’ve read several Strugatsky novels at this point, and I have to say that Monday Starts on Saturday is by far the strangest

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Review: The Beetle in the Anthill by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

translated by Olena Bormashenko original publication (in Russian): 1979 first English edition: 1980, Macmillan this edition: 2023, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library “Any self-respecting detective story should, of course, have carefully and explicitly broken these questions down for the reader and provided a complete explanation

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Review: The Waves Extinguish the Wind by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

translated by Daniels Umanovskis original publication (in Russian): 1986 first English edition (as The Time Wanderers): 1987, Richardson & Steirman this edition: 2023, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library When you pick up a book by two of the greatest science fiction writers of the 20th

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Review: Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

translated from the (uncensored) Russian by Olena Bormashenko (censored version originally translated into English by Antonina L. Bouis, 1977) Chicago Review Press May 1, 2012 224 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore The great thing about Strugatsky novels is that they’re all brilliant in their own unique ways. The Dead

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Out This Month: August

SHORT STORIES “The Plague” by Yan Leisheng, translated by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, August 1).             NOVELS Lame Fate/Ugly Swans by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Maya Vinokour (Chicago Review Press, August 4).           Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the

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Review: The Inhabited Island by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

[originally translated from the Russian in 1977 as Prisoners of Power; this new translation is of the uncensored version] translated by Andrew Bromfield Chicago Review Press February 4, 2020 416 pages grab a copy This novel from the Strugatskys’ Noon Universe is not just about a space traveler from Earth crash landing on an alien

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Out This Month: February

SHORT STORIES “Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá, translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei (Clarkesworld Magazine, February 1).             NOVELS The Inhabited Island by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, February 4).           Daughter from the

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Out This Month: August

SHORT STORIES “The Loneliest Ward” by Hao Jingfang, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine, August 1)       “The Mauve Planet” by Safia Ketou, translated from the French by Nadia Ghanem (Arablit.org, August 13)     Excerpt from The Man at One Kelvin Degrees by Piero Schiavo Campo, translated from the

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Out This Month: July 2016

The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, July 1) “The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its

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