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Re:The Future According to Stanisław Lem by vdaniuk on Saturday September 13, 2014 @10:42AM (#8312483)
I am from xUSSR and happy to recommend Strugatsky brothers. Their sci-fi books are deep, thoughtful and authentic.
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Re:The Future According to Stanisław Lem by idlewords on Saturday September 13, 2014 @10:44AM (#8312487)
Can't agree enough.

Is there any more recent Russian sci-fi that you recommend too?

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Re:The Future According to Stanisław Lem by vdaniuk on Saturday September 13, 2014 @10:51AM (#8312512)
Not really :(

I've heard some good things about Metro 2033 by Gluhovskiy, a post-apocalyptic novel about survivors living in Moscow underground train system after the nuclear war in 2013, but haven't read it myself.

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Re:The Future According to Stanisław Lem by flohofwoe on Saturday September 13, 2014 @11:25AM (#8312610)
Metro 2033 is a good read, I've been reading the German translation, and this still had that specific 'Russian soul' in it which is hard to describe. I was shocked how bad Metro 2034 is though in comparison, and I am not sure whether it was just a very bad German translation or whether the original book was also 'soul-less'.
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