I'm wondering about the translator too. Name: Josh Billings, who is a famous (so...

ableal · on March 23, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Billings

The article mentions, by photo, two others of a trio of 19th century American humorists - Mark Twain and Petroleum V. Nasby. All three are pen names ...

BerislavLopac · on March 23, 2015

How do you mean "pretending"?

JoeAltmaier · on March 23, 2015

Translator name is an alias; maybe that's a clue that they're not real. So what could they be? An author pretending to be a translator...

kirushik · on March 23, 2015

If by 'they' you mean Strugatsky brothers, then let me assure you that they are more than real.

(I'm russian and I've grown up reading their books.)

geoka9 · on March 23, 2015

They were...

kirushik · on March 31, 2015

In some sense — they still are, maybe more then both of us.

That kind of immortality is one of the perks of being a great artist.

detaro · on March 23, 2015

The Strugatzkis are among the most famous russian science fiction writers.