Do I need to introduce Arkady and Boris Strugatsky to the reader? The question is rhetorical: who among us has not held their books in his hands simply does not know how to read. But what do we know about the geniuses of Soviet science fiction, who predicted in their works the coming of stagnation, the catastrophe of perestroika, the damned days of the 90s, and even the sovereign democracy of the 2000s? The book by Yulia Chernyakhovskaya is dedicated not only to the creativity, but also to little-known events in the lives of famous Soviet science fiction writers What were the people like who created both the sunny Noon of the Soviet utopia and the darkness of the doomed worlds? How did their creative journey begin? Why did the “honeymoon” of relations between the Strugatsky brothers and the authorities give way to the “Cold War”? What was the role of the Soviet propagandist and secret agent of Western influence A. N. Yakovlev in this? Who wrote denunciations to the CPSU Central Committee against the best science fiction writers of the Soviet Union? Did A. Strugatsky collaborate with state security agencies? And wasn’t B. Strugatsky a “sent Cossack” in the ranks of the Russian opposition in the 2000s? Life and philosophy, creativity and struggle, endless faith in the human mind and amazing foresight of future events - this is how Arkady and Boris Strugatsky appear on the pages of this book . Read and you will find out which prophecies of our favorite writers have already come true, and what of what they have written is yet to come true.