Roadside Picnic

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Roadside Picnic
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Boris Strugatsky
By (author) Arkady Strugatsky
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780575093133
ClassificationsDewey:891.7344
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication Date 11 October 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 Biography

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.