For example, there are random spots of incredibly high gravity that will crush flat anything that crosses their threshold. The Zones are places that follow no human logic or any natural laws of this planet. That Lovecraftian feeling of human insignificance is pervasive throughout Roadside Picnic. Creatures whose minds are so incomprehensible that understanding them is like trying to visualize a fourth dimension. There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about ineffable alien beings. A volatile and occasionally violent alcoholic, Red was devoted to his wife and daughter, someone who would reflexively jeopardize himself to protect an enemy then flick ashes onto his carpet. Even as Red’s world became increasingly jaded, Red remained a defiant non-conformist. It was the novel concept of deadly areas filled with priceless alien technology that drew me to the book, but it was anti-hero protagonist Red Schuhart’s personal journey that kept the plot moving.
Those who venture into these areas are known as stalkers ( Roadside Picnic served as the inspiration for the 1979 film Stalker, as well as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. But these areas are also filled with bizarre traps and dangers that can be instantly and brutally fatal. What they leave behind are mysterious Zones, areas filled with invaluable technological wonders. Shortly before the story begins, aliens visit the earth, stay for a short time, then depart as suddenly as they’d arrived. It is a story about the aftermath of humanity’s first contact with alien life. The premise of Roadside Picnic is brilliantly simple.
Roadside Picnic is their most well-known work and has been published in more than 20 countries. The brothers wrote the story in 1971, and while it was published in sections beginning in 1972, it took them 8 years to finally have the story published in book form after a lengthy battle with soviet censorship.
Brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky came up with the idea of Roadside Picnic in Komorovo, a Russian town about an hour from St.
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