Roadside Picnic

[Dave Monroe]

Roadside Picnic

Arkady Strugatsky (Author), Boris Strugatsky (Author), Ursula K. Le
Guin (Foreword by)

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are
compelled, in spite of the extreme danger, to venture illegally into
the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors
left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the
thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his
friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,”
something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon
his return makes it inevitable that he’ll keep going back to the Zone,
again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.

            First published in 1972 and immediately acclaimed as a
science-fiction classic, Roadside Picnic is included on almost every
list of the hundred greatest science-fiction novels, despite the fact
that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty
years. It was the basis for Andrei Tarkovsky’s filmic masterpiece
Stalker and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video games, which have proven
immensely popular.

             This brand-new translation, which corrects many of the
errors and omissions of the previous one, has been supplemented with a
foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin, and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky
explaining the strange history of its publication in Russia. Finally,
one of the greatest science fiction novels—and one of the most popular
pieces of Russian fiction—is back in print in an authoritative
edition.

http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/catalog/showBook.cfm?ISBN=1613743416

Roadside Picnic

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

Stalker (1979)

tp://www.imdb.com/title/​tt0079944/

http://en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/Stalker_(film)