Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
…and reprints decreased, and several lengthy texts gained semi-banned status, circulating in samizdat (e.g., The Ugly Swans). Based on the novella Roadside Picnic, which had no book editions at the time, the Strugatskys wrote the screenplay for A. Tarkovsky's film Stalker (1979). In the 1980s, the Strugatskys…