Roadside Picnic: Volume 16
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Description
Red Schuhart is a stalker, a young rebel who is compelled, despite extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect mysterious alien artifacts. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together, something goes terribly wrong. The news Red receives 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. Back in print after 30 years, this brand new translation of a science-fiction classic has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky that explains the strange history of its original publication in Russia.
Product Details
Price
$16.99
$15.80
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Publish Date
May 01, 2012
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.4 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781613743416
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About the Author
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are the most famous and popular Russian writers of science fiction, and the authors of over 25 novels and novellas. Their books have been widely translated and have been made into a number of films. Arkady Strugatsky died in 1991. Boris Strugatsky died in November 2012. Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and other science-fiction classics.
Reviews
"Go read Roadside Picnic. It's a phenomenal book." --SF Signal
"[T]his is a fantastic book. One of my favorite recommendations of the year." --Boing Boing
"[A] vivid new translation... it has survived triumphantly as a classic." --Publishers Weekly
"The story is carried out with a controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute." --Kirkus Reviews
"Brilliantly and beautifully written . . . a truly superb work of science fiction." --Infinity Plus
"Lively, racy, and likable . . . complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"Amazing. . . . The Strugatskys' deft and supple handling of loyalty and greed, of friendship and love, of despair and frustration and loneliness [produces] a truly superb tale. . . . You won't forget it." --Theodore Sturgeon
"No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended." --The Complete Review
"If you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic." --io9
"The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity . . . The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe." --Discover
"[T]his is a fantastic book. One of my favorite recommendations of the year." --Boing Boing
"[A] vivid new translation... it has survived triumphantly as a classic." --Publishers Weekly
"The story is carried out with a controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute." --Kirkus Reviews
"Brilliantly and beautifully written . . . a truly superb work of science fiction." --Infinity Plus
"Lively, racy, and likable . . . complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"Amazing. . . . The Strugatskys' deft and supple handling of loyalty and greed, of friendship and love, of despair and frustration and loneliness [produces] a truly superb tale. . . . You won't forget it." --Theodore Sturgeon
"No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended." --The Complete Review
"If you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic." --io9
"The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity . . . The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe." --Discover
