NP; Strugatskii Brothers & Stalker

[Nicole Slagter]

Heartfelt thanks to the P-lister (I think it was Derek Maus) who, 
quite some time ago, mentioned that Tarkovsky's Stalker was 
based on a novel by the Strugatskii brothers. Being a big fan of 
Stalker (unlike some on this list, I seem to remember), I've been 
on the lookout for the book ever since. And I finally found it!
Read it every bit as avidly as the happy HP4 owners. 
Trying for some tenuous Pynchon connection: the book/film deal  
with life `in the Zone' (places altered by extraterrestrial visits, 
in this case). Brian McHale has an exellent chapter on zones in 
postmodernist fiction in his book of the same name.

Nicole S. (longest time lurker on the list, I should think)