{"title": "Rediscovering the Strugatsky Brothers: A talk with Mark Bould and Adam Roberts", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "film/science-fiction"], "description": "A talk, held both in person and online, about the Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who dominated the genre for over three decades. It is co-presented by Pushkin House and Klassiki as a companion to the film season After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film, which screens four adaptations of their work. Science fiction experts Adam Roberts and Mark Bould will discuss what the brothers meant for readers and cinema audiences in their time and what their work tells us today, including its political, environmental and artistic implications. Samuel Goff, editorial director of Klassiki, chairs the conversation, which also features presentations and questions from the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rediscovering-the-strugatsky-brothers-a-talk-with-mark-bould-38091/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6559", "image": "https://noky.io/images/510ae9da50b1ad77b5e6f30ac43eb3834b8d6050dacb012dbb90551bdc9bd55a-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://bookings.thegardencinema.co.uk/TheGardenCinema.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_6352293.TcsSection_3060731", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film is a film programme inspired by the pioneering science fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers, who reigned over Soviet science fiction for more than three decades. Pushkin House and Klassiki present the series, running from 6 to 13 November with four screenings and a live discussion at Pushkin House. It explores how renowned Soviet and Russian filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Sokurov, and Aleksei German, drew on the Strugatskys as they explored the slow collapse of twentieth-century utopia. 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Aleksandr Sokurov adapts the Strugatsky Brothers' 1977 novel One Billion Years to the Ends of the Earth: a young doctor posted to a remote Turkmen town in the dying days of the Soviet experiment finds his research into religious faith and medicine confounded by mysterious encounters and ill omens. Switching between sepia and colour, documentary footage and invention, the film paints an oblique portrait of the end of Soviet empire, with a remarkable lead performance from Aleksei Ananishnov.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/days-of-eclipse-39241/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/days-of-eclipse/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/842a82f64d97bc57a21d1d42d462a735c40f2fc051e2dd35e4d40dac898cf7c4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rab-Rab, Three Men in a Tub (of Publishing Avant-Garde Literature)", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening book talk, held both in person and online, devoted to the avant-garde literature published by Rab-Rab Press. It brings together Sezgin Boynik, founder of the Helsinki-based press, poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky, and artist and curator Nikolay Karabinovych, moderated by Isabel Jacobs. They will discuss the eight-volume bie-bao series on the Futurist poet and typographic artist Iliazd, and the new publication of Shop-Signs in Kharkiv by the 1920s Ukrainian modernist Maik Yohansen. Topics range from Futurism to language politics, poetry to typography, alongside other titles such as a new translation of Varlam Shalamov's The Twenties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rab-rab-three-men-in-a-tub-of-publishing-avant-garde-literat-64276/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6658", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5b0786d8cb77c96da1cbca758175a460df1a309a4b557d97cc6b463c84a5a47-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stalker", "start": "2026-11-07T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://bookings.thegardencinema.co.uk/TheGardenCinema.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_6352293.TcsSection_3060731", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "A screening of the film Stalker, made by Andrei Tarkovsky, presented in person. 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The film presents the national implications of climate and nature breakdown, along with credible positive responses, in a single accessible account. It features Chris Packham, leading scientists, a former general and Jennifer Saunders being frank about where things are heading and what can be done. After the screening there will be a discussion with LDEC (London Doughnut Economy Coalition) and Southwark Councillor Victor Chamberlain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fundraiser-the-peoples-emergency-briefing-discussion-65412/", "official_url": "https://thearzner.com/TheArzner.dll/WhatsOn?f=390650", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4880e1e0f9712358c5321e9d2c9b43ae505f8d1bd65beccbd6fe6ec8898f7a53-2000.webp"}]}