斯特鲁加茨基兄弟虚构了一个潘多拉星球，而电影《阿凡达》正是以这个绿意盎然森林丰茂的星球为背景，甚至卡梅隆为它取的名字也叫潘多拉。

It was the Strugatskys who came up with the planet Pandora - the same name chosen by Cameron for the similarly green and lushly forested planet used as the spectacular backdrop to Avatar.

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但这部电影的导演詹姆斯·卡梅隆今天却惹上麻烦：他的这部3d巨作《阿凡达》欠在前苏联大受欢迎的科幻作家斯特鲁加茨基兄弟一个说法。

But the film director James Cameron was facing claims today that his 3d blockbuster Avatar owes an unacknowledged debt to the popular Soviet fantasy writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

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76岁的鲍里斯·斯特鲁加茨基看来对那些认为《阿凡达》和《正午宇宙》存在相似性的观点不屑一顾，他否认了上周关于他谴责卡梅隆这种剽窃行为的报道。

Strugatsky, 76, appears to have shrugged off Suggestions of similarities between Avatar and his Noon Universe, and denied reports circulated last week that he was accusing Cameron of plagiarism.

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