Dmitrii Zanerv points out the unusual and continuing popularity of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who are still read all over the world. After outlining their biographies, Zanerv identifies their three great works and discusses the reason for the decline in quality or importance of their later writings. He concludes that they are not as great as they seemed to Soviet readers who had not read widely in science fiction from other cultures, though to this date they are still the best diagnosticians of the Soviet condition.

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成为知识分子之一很容易

Dmitrii Zanerv指出Arkady和Boris Strugatsky的非凡且持续受欢迎的原因，他们在世界各地仍在阅读。在概述了他们的传记之后，Zanerv确定了他们的三本伟大的作品，并讨论了其后来作品的质量下降或重要性下降的原因。他得出的结论是，尽管他们至今仍是苏联状况的最佳诊断专家，但他们并不像那些尚未从其他文化中广泛阅读过科幻小说的苏联读者那样看似伟大。