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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-06 · 13 entries checked · 11 flagged · 33 issues confirmed · 0 corrected · 33 still open
Dead Mountaineer's Inn — The novel was first serialized in 1970 in the magazine 'Znamya', not 'Yunost'.
Dead Mountaineer's Inn — By standard chronology, it is the 18th novel by the Strugatsky brothers, not the 17th.
Definitely Maybe (novel) — The novel was first published in 1976, not 1977.
Definitely Maybe (novel) — The claim that Vecherovsky is 'loosely based on mathematician Yuri Manin' is speculative and not confirmed as factual.
The Doomed City — The novel was written in 1970-1971, not 1972; the draft was completed in 1971.
The Doomed City — The volunteers do not include Sweden of the 1970s; that specific time and place is not supported by the text.
The Final Circle of Paradise — The novel is not a sequel to 'Space Apprentice' and 'The Way to Amalthea'; calling it a 'sequel of sorts' is an invented claim that contradicts established canon.
The Final Circle of Paradise — The city is referred to as 'Land of Fools' in the entry, but in the novel the resort city is not explicitly named 'Land of Fools' — that phrase is a loose translation, not the actual name.
From Beyond (Strugatsky novella) — The 1958 short story was first published in the newspaper 'Komsomolets of Tajikistan', not in 'Tekhnika Molodezhi'.
From Beyond (Strugatsky novella) — The 1960 novella version was first published as part of the collection 'Six Matches', not as a separate publication.
Lame Fate — The Blue Folder originally contained the text of The Doomed City, later replaced by Ugly Swans. This is incorrect: the Blue Folder in Lame Fate originally contained the text of Ugly Swans, not The Doomed City.
Monday Begins on Saturday — The character Sabaoth Baalovich Odin is described as 'the most powerful wizard in the universe'—this is not stated in the novel.
Monday Begins on Saturday — The phrasing 'staffed by Alfred, a vampire' implies he is the sole staff member of the vivarium, but in the novel he is not the only staff member.
Overburdened with Evil — The novel was written between 1986 and 1988, but the first standalone book edition with illustrations by Yana Ashmarina and an afterword by Sergey Pereslegin was published by Prometheus in 1990, not 1989. The 1989 edition by Moskovsky Rabochiy was part of Sele
Overburdened with Evil — The claim that the novel was 'consistently included in all collected works of the Strugatskys from 1989 onward' is inaccurate; it was not included in the first collected works (1989–1990, Moskovsky Rabochiy) as that set was published before the novel's standal
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