With almost twenty-five books and novellas to their names, including The Doomed City, The Inhabited Isle, and Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were well-known and popular Russian science fiction writers. Their works have been widely translated and adapted into movies. Victor Pelevin, Boris Akunin, Sergei Lukyanenko, Mikhail Bulgakov, Daniil Kharms, Leo Tolstoy, and the Strugatsky brothers have all had works translated into English by Andrew Bromfield.