Roadside Picnic
Years after a brief alien visitation left behind lethal, wondrous Zones, a hardened scavenger makes illegal runs to retrieve the artifacts inside.
- Type
- Book
- Released
- 1972
- Author
- Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
- Original title
- Пикник на обочине
- Critics' average
- 86/100 across 1 published score
Genres
Science fiction · Alien encounter · Post-apocalyptic
What it feels like
First contact & the alien · Mortality & meaning · Eerie · Bleak
Connected stories
- Was adapted as Stalker