Roadside Picnic was listed as one of Bloomsbury's 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Books. They are the authors of over 25 novels and novellas. The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers. His life is dominated by visiting the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Red Schuhart is one of the stalkers, one of those young rebels who are compelled, despite the danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. ![]() The resulting items left in various zones on earth have strange properties, sometimes highly valuable, sometimes deadly, and a black market quickly forms, fed by expert scavengers called stalkers who lead dangerous expeditions to retrieve them. ![]() In Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, alien visitors stopped off on earth for a rest, leaving behind various bits of junk and technology while completely oblivious of humankind, like a family on a road trip might litter on a picnic.
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