How the Strugatsky brothers’ science fiction went from utopian to dystopian. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Near the beginning of The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, a 1970 novel by the Russian science-fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the innkeeper, Alek Snevar, proposes to his guest, police inspector Peter Glebsky, that mystery is always preferable to explanation. “Haven’t... <a href="Read">http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/11/give-me-that-old-time-socialist-utopia/">Read More</a> <span class="link">»</span>