| Roadside Picnic: Volume 16 Contributor(s): Strugatsky, Arkady (Author), Strugatsky, Boris (Author), Le Guin, Ursula K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1613743416 ISBN-13: 9781613743416 Publisher: Chicago Review Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-apocalyptic - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012001294 |
| Series: Rediscovered Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of 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, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia. |