Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Comment by Hari Kunru in The Guardian:
Soviet-era Russian science fiction deserves a wider audience in English. The Strugatsky brothers collaborated on numerous novels and stories, the best known of which is this, partly because it was filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker, in 1977. The novel takes place 10 years after a mysterious alien visitation, which seems to have no rational explanation. No one saw the visitors. Their presence caused disease and blindness in the areas where they landed. Now, in the six "Zones", the laws of physics (and, seemingly, of reality) are disturbed by anomalies, and littered with inexplicable, deadly wreckage. Only a few brave "stalkers" risk their lives to enter the zones to gather alien artefacts for sale. Some of these artefacts offer the promise of extraordinary powers. Unlike Tarkovsky's film, which concentrates on the hallucinatory, vacated landscape of the zones, the novels portray a society adapting to an inexplicable, terrifying event, an eruption of the unknown. Though written in 1971 and published in English in 1977, the novel was heavily bowdlerised by Soviet censors, and an authoritative text wasn't available in Russian until 2000. It's a book with an extraordinary atmosphere – and a demonstration of how science fiction, by using a single bold central metaphor, can open up the possibilities of the novel.
Original Title: Пикник на обочине
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02
Stalker: Pícnic extraterrestre
2015, Gigamesh, Ediciones Gigamesh
in Spanish
8416035059 9788416035052
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04 |
zzzz
|
05 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07 |
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
11 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
12
Monday Starts in Saturday / Picnic Near Highway (My First Collection)
2003, OLMA PRESS Education
Hardcover
in Russian
- 1st edition
5948493679 9785948493671
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
13 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
14 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
15
Roadside Picnic
2000, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- SF Collector's Edition
0575070536 9780575070530
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
16 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
17 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
18 |
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
19 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
20 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
21 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created February 26, 2022
- 7 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
June 6, 2024 | Edited by Drini | Merge works |
June 19, 2023 | Edited by dirigitive | Edited without comment. |
June 19, 2023 | Edited by dirigitive | //covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/14356127-S.jpg |
April 14, 2023 | Edited by Tom Morris | merge authors |
February 26, 2022 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Better World Books record |