roadside picnic by arkady and boris strugatsky

In the book, stalkers are people who trespass into the forbidden area known as the Zone and steal its valuable extraterrestrial artifacts, which the stalkers sell. The term stalker became a part of the Russian language and, according to the authors, became the most popular of their neologisms. The 1979 film Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers. The book has been the source of many adaptations and other inspired works in a variety of media, including stage plays, video games, and television series. Stanisław Lem wrote an afterword to the German edition of 1977. A preface to the first American edition was written by Theodore Sturgeon. The story is published in English in a translation by Antonina W.

As of 2003, Boris Strugatsky counted 55 publications of Roadside Picnic in 22 countries. It is the brothers' most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union. Boris Strugatsky’s afterword describes how uneasy the manuscript made myopic Soviet bureaucrats it has survived triumphantly as a classic because it expresses humanity’s inarticulate rage and wonder at life’s frustrations and promises.Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, Piknik na obochine, IPA: ) is a philosophical science fiction novel by Soviet-Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, written in 1971 and published in 1972. Over-lapping narratives show stalker Red Schuhart’s struggle to master the Zone’s inexplicable treasures and terrors. While cautious people keep their distance, furtive explorers called “stalkers” enter the Zones to retrieve objects that are wonderful but unpredictably deadly. The action takes place in and near a Visit Zone, one of six areas suddenly scattered with incomprehensible artifacts and disturbing phenomena one baffled scientist ruefully suggests that aliens visited Earth like careless tourists and dumped their trash here. As this vivid new translation demonstrates, it also remains a powerful study of human behavior in the presence of superhuman power. Since its 1972 appearance in Russia, the Strugatsky brothers’ novel has been published worldwide, inspired Andrei Tarkovsky’s memorable film Stalker, and been the basis for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Roadside picnic by arkady and boris strugatsky