Roadside Picnic
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Roadside Picnic
By (Author) Boris Strugatsky
By (author) Arkady Strugatsky
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
18th December 2012
11th October 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
891.7344
Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1978 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm
200g
Description
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths.
Author Bio
Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991) and Boris Strugatsky (b.1931) began to collaborate in the early 1950s after Arkady had studied English and Japanese and worked as a technical translator and editor and Boris was a computer mathematician at Pulkova astronomical observatory.
