Present About Books Roadside Picnic
| Title | : | Roadside Picnic |
| Author | : | Arkady Strugatsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 145 pages |
| Published | : | August 24th 2000 by Gollancz (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Dystopia. Novels |
Arkady Strugatsky
Paperback | Pages: 145 pages Rating: 4.19 | 38343 Users | 2543 Reviews
Description In Favor Of Books Roadside Picnic
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.
Identify Books Supposing Roadside Picnic
| Original Title: | Пикник на обочине |
| ISBN: | 0575070536 (ISBN13: 9780575070530) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Red Schuhart |
| Literary Awards: | John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1978), Graoully d'Or for Roman étranger (1981), Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award Nominee for Long Form (Honorable Mention) (2013) |
Rating About Books Roadside Picnic
Ratings: 4.19 From 38343 Users | 2543 ReviewsJudgment About Books Roadside Picnic
One of my unofficial goals from now until the end of the year is to go back to the books I speed-dated and kept at the end of last year and finish the dang things! Roadside Picnic is one of those, although I have another reason to read it that will soon be revealed.This is a story about the aftermath of a first contact event - except there wasn't as much contact as aliens treating Earth like a... wait for it... roadside picnic. They came in, destroying entire areas and rendering others unsafeSF writers typically approach alien contact in grandiose terms, but the Strugatsky brothers wonder instead, "What if it is more like a 'Roadside Picnic?'" Aliens trekking through space find they have to rest a spell and land on Terra, for lunch, a little r & r, perhaps a smoke. After an interval--however long it takes for an alien to enjoy a meal al fresco--they lift off from our uninteresting planet, probably never to return, leaving behind the star voyager equivalent of empty beer cans,
Being below the concern of alien beings is not a new science fiction theme (although it is a relatively rare one), but I've never read a book that examined the idea quite like this. Ursula K. Le Guin's foreword is right - most of the time, the people who interact with alien technology are highly skilled and educated, even if, as in Rendezvous With Rama, the aliens couldn't care less about us.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the recent changes in Goodreads policy and
You may have seen the 1979 Russian film Stalker, or Сталкер, but up until a couple of months ago, I had no idea it was based on a novel. Roadside Picnic is amazing. Though I have to say I love the film more, this is an excellent book with deep psychological undertones and numerous twisted plot devices.
Roadside Picnic is not your usual science fiction. Most first contact stories are founded on the fundamental assumption that aliens will find the human race worthy of their attention and interesting enough to engage witheven when the first contact being militaristic in nature, we know at least we are worth having resources wasted on us. But maybe what if they just came, stopped for a picnic, and moved on, leaving behind their equivalent to our plastic wrappers, used batteries, monkey wrenches
4.22 average rating, eh? It is not undeserved but I would say satisfaction is not guaranteed.Roadside Picnic is something of a minor classic that I have often seen mentioned in sci-fi literature discussion groups like the excellent PrintSF on Reddit. Certainly the basic conceit is wonderfully sfnal. Six zones of Earth have been visited by aliens over a two-day period, there are no witnesses for these visitations, the only evidence is the strange artifacts these alien apparently left behind or
Another gem introduced to me by my friends at Goodreads. This short novel is a "how-to" on sidelong insinuations, information gaps, and inferences that make for a wholly satisfying story. The main character, Redrick Schuhart, starts out as an entrepreneurial collector of alien artifacts, and becomes a hardened, curmudgeonly, but effective artifact hunter searching for (view spoiler)[the ultimate prize, a golden ball that purportedly gives the owner his wishes (hide spoiler)]. The Strugatsky
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