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I love Soviet era Sci-Fi, a lot of it is actually written by scientists of the time. I've also heard that We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is good.
I originally read Roadside Picnic as a teen, which, at the time, impressed me as an exciting sci-fi adventure. When I re-read it as a young adult, i saw it as a rather depressing tale asking the questions of sacrifice and duty. My other favorite by Strugatskys is A Billion Years Before The End Of The World (translated as Definitely Maybe), which you can read as a somewhat humorous story involving paranormal events, o…
I'd say the same about Blindsight, but it hasn't spawned much. Although, it's core trope is arguably the most unique I've ever read before.
Lem wasn't Soviet, he was Polish. It's strange he also considers Victor Pelevin to be a Soviet writer as all his novels were released after 1991.
Soviet fiction I know: Alexander Bogdanov, the Red Star Interesting person and interesting book, considering it is from 1905 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov
I originally read Roadside Picnic as a teen, which, at the time, impressed me as an exciting sci-fi adventure. When I re-read it as a young adult, i saw it as a rather depressing tale asking the questions of sacrifice and duty. My other favorite by Strugatskys is A Billion Years Before The End Of The World (translated as Definitely Maybe), which you can read as a somewhat humorous story involving paranormal events, o…
I still think it could have the potential be a really interesting TV show. Personally I think the slow nature of the book lends itself towards the show format.
Further, IIRC I believe that soviet authors/translators were able to skirt censorship for the LoTR books by wrapping them in a Sci-Fi setting. Soviet writer for science fiction are some of my favorites.
Soviet fiction I know: Alexander Bogdanov, the Red Star Interesting person and interesting book, considering it is from 1905 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov
Not exactly Soviet but "We" fits well here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
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Polish in birth and in spirit, a Soviet writer by location duing his more productive years: > Lem was born in 1921 in Lwów, interwar Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) > In 1945, Lwow was annexed into the Soviet Ukraine, and the family, along with many other Polish citizens, was resettled to Kraków, where Lem, at his father's insistence, took up medical studies at the Jagiellonian University. > After the war, under the Polis…
That's a mighty stretch you try to construct. Born in Poland, lived in Poland, just had the bad luck for being there during times when soviets cough cough russians were taking whatever want, and terrorizing the rest. For most Polish people this would be quite an insult even disregarding current war waged by russia just next to them, which is pretty much impossible to ignore if you live there.
The parable from Soviet Sci-Fi to the current events is quite confusing. It's an attempt to create a narrative where there isn't.
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Not exactly Soviet but "We" fits well here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
"We" is remarkable in that it describes lots of failure modes of the Bolshevik revolution before they happened.