5/29/2023 0 Comments Roadside picnic book![]() The novel follows the career of one such stalker, Redrick Schuhart:- Review(s): "'Roadside Picnic' is an immensely powerful work, a sustained imaginative vision which resonates in the reader's mind long after the book is finished. The possible rewards of such a discovery are sufficient to persuade some people to risk entering the Zone, either in official scientific explorations, or as clandestine 'stalkers', feeding a flourishing black market. ![]() Much of it is highly dangerous, but there are some artifacts - such as self-reproducing, everlasting batteries - which revolutionise man's technology. The debris left behind by the aliens - the equivalent, it is theorised, of the litter we might scatter around at a picnic - is as incomprehensible as they are. The setting of 'Roadside Picnic' is the Zone - part of Canada which has been the scene of a mysterious alien visit. They have the distinction of being the first sf writers actually to have their work go into space, one of the Soyuz-17 astronauts having taken a Strugatsky novel to read during the mission. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W Bouis:- Synopsis: The Strugatsky brothers are the leading sf writers in Russia - a country where science fiction is even more popular than in the West. © 1972: A stand-alone novel by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. ![]()
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