TRANSLATION OF EVERYDAY REALIA FROM RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH IN SCIENCE FICTION (STUDY OF THE NOVEL "ROADSIDE PICNIC" BY A. AND B. STRUGATSKI AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATION)
The article is devoted to identification, systematization and analysis of everyday realia in science fiction and peculiarities of their translation from Russian into English. The material for the research is the text of the famous story “The Roadside Picnic” by A. and B. Strugatsky (1972) and its translation into English by Antonina W. Bouis (1977). It is for the first time that an attempt was made to reveal the linguistic and stylistic features of the translation of science fiction. The conducted research showed that everyday realities of the story help the authors to create the inner world of the characters and the atmoshere of the story. Using various methods of translation, the translator conveys with a rather high level of accuracy peculiarities of relationship of the characters and the author's style for the English-speaking audience.