Hard to Be a God

For the 1989 film, see Hard to Be a God (1989 film). For the 2013 film, see Hard to Be a God (2013 film).
Hard to Be a God
AuthorArkady and Boris Strugatsky
Original titleТрудно быть богом.
TranslatorsWendayne Ackerman (1973),
Olena Bormashenko (2014)
LanguageRussian
SeriesNoon Universe
GenreScience fiction
PublisherSeabury Press
Publication date
1964
Publication placeSoviet Union
Published in English
1973
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
ISBN0-8164-9121-6
OCLC481252
891.7/3/44
LC ClassPG3488.T73 T713
Preceded byFar Rainbow 
Followed byDisquiet 

Hard to Be a God (Russian: Трудно быть богом, romanized: Trudno byt' bogom) is a 1964 science fiction novel by the Soviet writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe.