Quote Originally Posted by Basil77 View Post
Classics: Strugatsky brothers of course. My favorite is "Monday starts at Saturday". Also there are some classics from 1920s like Belyayev and Alexey Tolstoy. Also Ivan Yefremov is considered classics but his books are too boring for me. From the modern writers I like early works of Sergey Lukyanenko. I didn't like his most recent books though. Btw, Ramil translated the whole Lukyanenko NOVEL (not the best one imho) into English here at this forum:

S. Lukyanenko. The Dreamline . Proofreaders are welcome )))
Super helpful, thanks! 1920s is too far back for me, I am more into newer things, say 1960s and onwards.
Sergey Lukyanenko. I'll check out Sergey Lukyanenko. Incredible that Ramil translated that novel! What a star. Haven't seen him here for ages. Maybe he got tired of all the trolling lately.

I think this is perfect for actually reading in Russian, or even listening to, on iPod.

There is a book called Metro 2033 I'd like to read too. Author is an interesting person called Dimitry Glukhovsky.


Quote Originally Posted by SergeMak View Post
Иван Ефремов is one of the mainstream si-fi writers of the Soviet period. His books are not bad, just overburden with the communist ideology. For my opinion his best book is "Час быка", an anti utopian novel. Another well-known writer is Александр Казанцев with his books about an ancient civilization from the exploded planet Faeton.
I'll definitely check him off and a little ideology doesn't put me off. All the American sci-fi books are full of it, so that would just be a different angle. Anti-utopian?! sounds interesting. Not sure about the planet Faeton book - sounds like it might be too deep.


Quote Originally Posted by RedFox View Post
Well, the Strugatsky brothers were writers of so called soft (social) SF (in contrast with Роза и Червь which is a brilliant example of hard SF). To the Strugatsky's books you mentioned, I'd like to add The Kid and Inhabited Island. They are absolutely must-read too.

And if we talk about soft SF, there is yet another talented SF writer. Eugeny Lukin. In my opinion, he is much more Russian in spirit than Soviet Strugatsky. I do not want to offend anyone, the Strugatsky brothers are good SF writers too. But if one wants to read Russian SF, one definitely should read Lukin's books.
Евгений Лукин в Википедии, на сайте fantlab.ru и на сайте flibusta.net.

(I'm pretty sure I've made some grammatical mistakes in this post. Corrections are welcome. )
Strugatskis is a must-read, I think and Lukin sounds interesting - I like the "more Russian" aspect, it sounds interesting.

Going on the hunt for this, to put on my ipod and e-reader!