Roadside Picnic -

Irmãos Strugátski

Chicago Review Press

2012

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-10: 1613743416

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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Esperava algo diferente mas não me decepcionei

Dá pra entender por que o livro serviu como inspiração pra tantas outras histórias!

Esperava um livro sobre o quão espetacular ou extraordinário seria algum tipo de visita de seres de outros planetas, galáxias ou universos no geral..
Mas não me decepcionei ao perceber que na verdade era uma história mais focada no drama de alguns personagens afetados por esse tipo de evento...