(Click HERE to watch the final moments of the 1998 movie Antz. Just as the citizens of New York City never paid any attention to the ants in Antz, the aliens seemed not to notice the existence of the citizens of Harmont (the town next to the Zone). The wheels have tracked mud from some godforsaken swamp…and, of course, there are the remains of the campfire, apple cores, candy wrappers, tins, bottles, someone's handkerchief, someone's penknife, old ragged newspapers, coins, wilted flowersįorm another meadow…" Yes, it's as if the aliens just made a brief rest stop and then took off, leaving the insignificant denizens of the area to sort through their trash. And what do they see? An oil spill, a gasoline puddle, old spark plugs and oil filters strewn about…Scattered rags, burnt-out bulbs, someone has dropped a monkey wrench. The animals, birds, and insects that were watching the whole night in horror crawl out of their shelters. A car pulls off the road into the meadow and unloads young men, bottles, picnic baskets, girls, transistor radios, cameras…A fire is lit, tents are pitched, music is played. Imagine: a forest, a country road, a meadow. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel’s publication in Russia.Here, one character presents his hypothesis about the Visit: "A picnic. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. 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.įirst 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.
But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,” something goes wrong.
His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. 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.
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