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Type
Paperback
ISBN
9781613743416
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1613743416
ISBN-13
9781613743416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
124585966

Product Key Features

Book Title
Roadside Picnic
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Author
Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Book Series
Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-001294
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
 "No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended."  -The Complete Review , "Brilliantly and beautifully written . . . a truly superb work of science fiction."  - Infinity Plus, "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, "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, "Brilliantly and beautifully written . . . a truly superb work of science fiction."  — Infinity Plus, "The story is carried out with a controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute."  - Kirkus Reviews, "The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity . . . The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe."  -- Discover     , "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, "The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity... The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe." - Discover, "Brilliantly and beautifully written . . . a truly superb work of science fiction." -- Infinity Plus, "The story is carried out with a controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute."  -- Kirkus Reviews, "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, "The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity... The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe."  - Discover     , "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, "The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity . . . The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe."  - Discover     , "Lively, racy, and likable . . . complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated." -Ursula K. Le Guin, "No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended."  -The Complete Review , "Lively, racy, and likable . . . complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated."  -Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity... The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe."  - Discover   , "If you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic ." --io9  , "Lively, racy, and likable . . . complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated." --Ursula K. Le Guin, "The story is carried out with a controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute."  — Kirkus Reviews, "No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended." -- The Complete Review, "Lively, racy, and likable . . . complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated."  —Ursula K. Le Guin, "If you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic ." --io9, "If you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic ."  -io9  , "The Strugatskys' worldview remains both uniquely cutting and replete with humanity . . . The characters' conflicted views of their troubled world make for a read that still feels fresh today. It's also a book that's bound to make you feel a little less sure of humanity's place in the universe." -- Discover, "No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended."  -- The Complete Review , "[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, "If you're going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic ." -io9  , "No doubt: a powerful, classic work of science fiction. Certainly recommended."  - The Complete Review 
Series Volume Number
16
Dewey Decimal
891.73/44
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
PG3476.S78835P5513

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