Roadside Picnicis a gripping and thought-provoking novel that challenges the reader to question their own values and beliefs, and to consider the implications of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Risking his own health and freedom for riches and understanding, and sacrificing a relationship with his estranged daughter. Making the same Stalker living that seemingly claimed the life of his father when he was a child, he must confront his own decisions to continue to follow on an ill-fated path to the future.
Exploring themes of greed, morality and the price of progress, protagonist Redrick Schuhart finds himself struggling to make sense of his life. A black market trade has grown from the scavenging and sale of these forgotten objects, but gaining access to a zone is highly illegal and incredibly dangerous, such that only those brave or desperate enough to become ‘Stalkers’ make the journey.įirst published in 1972, Roadside Picnic remains a prescient novel whose depiction of government-controlled zones filled with invisible dangers and tantalising treasures continues to resonate with the human condition and its desire for understanding the unknown. Roadside Picnic by Russian brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is set in a dystopian world that, in the aftermath of an alien invasion, has been segmented into ‘zones’ which are littered with mysterious artifacts and strange phenomena.
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