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We are often asked as to what books and movies we like—and so we’ve decided to compile a list of our favourites so that we don’t have to wrinkle our foreheads trying not to forget anything good each time the question arises. The list could have been longer, of course; it doesn’t include nearly enough. Still, it’s a good place to start if you want to learn more about our non-gaming tastes.
Books
Nikolay Dybowski, Creative Lead
Paul Gallico, Jennie
Thornton Wilder: everything
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill; The Man Who Was Thursday
Ayrat Zakirov, CTO
Mikhail Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don
Leo Lotstoy, War and Peace
Andrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Peter Potapov, Chief of 3D
Read everything! Ray Bradbury, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Stephen King, Isaak Asimov, Clifford Simak, Terry Pratchett, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Neil Gaiman. Tired of sci-fi? Try Tolstoy (all of them), Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Isaak Babel. Want something non-Russian? How about Iain Banks, J. D. Salinger, John Fowles. There's a lot of good literature!
Ivan Slovtsov, Game Designer
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fedor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Alexandra "Alphyna" Golubeva, Chief of Translation/Writer
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Fedor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Doomed City
Anna Orlova, Concept Artist
Stephen King, The Dark Tower; The Stand
Dan Simmons, Hyperion Cantos
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Victor Pelevin, Generation P; Omon Ra
Igor Zinovyev, Tools Programmer
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Kukotsky's Case
Stanisław Lem, Solaris; Cyberiada
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Prisoners of Power; The Kid from Hell
Dmitry Zhebynev, Engine Programmer
Simon R. Green, Deathstalker
Vassily Golvachev, The Black Man
Roman Zlotnikov, Swrods above the Stars
Sophia Vasilenko, Maintenance person
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Clifford D. Simak, Target Generation
Michel de Montaigne, Essais
Sergey Lukyanenko, Spectrum; Almost Spring
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, One Billion Years before the End of the World; Hard to be a God
Boris Strugatsky, Search for Destiny or the Twenty Seventh Theorem of Ethics
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita