Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Legacy

Legacy

Several writers have to a varying degree paid their tribute to the works of Strugatsky brothers:

• Sergey Lukyanenko in his duology The Stars Are Cold Toys has the main character visit a world that is in many aspects strikingly similar to Earth from Noon Universe but in truth is revealed to be fundamentally different and oppressive. On his website, Lukyanenko commented that he disagreed with Strugatsky's view on education and upbringing and conceived his duology partly as a polemic criticism of it.
• The plot of Kir Bulychev's novella from Alisa Selezneva series, Vacations in Space, or the Planet Five-Four, is based on finding a secret base of mysterious "Wanderers" (Странники), an extinct highly advanced civilization. He also depicted his own Zone in the story Save Galya!
• In late 1990s, a three-volume collection of fiction by notable contemporary Russian science fiction authors, titled The Time of the Apprentices (Время учеников), was published with an endorsement of Boris Strugatsky. Each piece in the collection was a sequel to one of Strugatskys' books.
• The asteroid 3054 Strugatskia, discovered by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977 was named after the Strugatsky brothers.
• The fictional planet Pandora depicted in the movie Avatar by James Cameron contains some similarities with the Noon Universe series, where the planet is also called Pandora, it is also filled with jungle, where live weird animals and humanoid race. Also, the girlfriend of Biologist Sidorov in Strugatskys' novel is called "Nava" (compare to "Na'vi" as name of the humanoid race in the movie). However, Boris Strugatsky had rejected accusations of plagiarism, despite the similarities.