abstract:The brothers Arkady (; August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991) and Boris (; April 14, 1933 – November 19, 2012) Strugatsky (; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii) were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.
Butthe filmdirector James Cameron was facing claimstoday that his3dblockbusterAvatar owes an unacknowledged debtto thepopularSovietfantasywritersArkady and Boris Strugatsky.
R. is a videogame loosely based on a 1979 science fiction film, Stalker, (directed by Andrei Tarkovsky), which in turn is loosely based on a novel, Roadside Picnic (written by ArkadyandBorisStrugatsky).