Roadside Picnic (Rediscovered Classics)

"Really interesting...a pretty wild Soviet publishing battle tale." --"Greyt Thoughts" blog
"Go read Roadside Picnic. It's a phenomenal book." --SF Signal

"[a] vivid new translation... it has survived triumphantly as a classic." "Publishers Weekly""

Go read Roadside Picnic. It s a phenomenal book. SF Signal"

"[A] vivid new translation... it has survived triumphantly as a classic." --Publishers Weekly "[Roadside Picnic] reminds us how well science fiction explores humanity" --Sacramento News & Review "A new translation of Roadside Picnic is a major event. The novel is routinely included in lists of the 100 greatest science fiction novels, and its influence of popular culture is immense....Besides [Ursula] Le Guin's foreword, the Chicago Review Press edition contains a witty afterword by Boris Strugatsky." --The Oregonian

"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

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.

First 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. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel’s publication in Russia.

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