Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, despite the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in alien products. This is a thrilling science fiction adventure full of action and mystery set in a world where special forces are charged with keeping order among the dangerous creatures that lurk along canals and in the abandoned buildings above ground.

The Zone continues to grow and expand and is now occupied mainly by humans. Strugatsky’s novel is set in an unknown time when all manner of exotic animals still roams the Earth. The story begins with a young Red Schuhart, a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, despite the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. The place dominates his life and

This is a story about Red Schuhart and his stalker friends. Their lives are dominated by the place and the thriving black market in alien products from the outer space. This book is part of dutch author Arkady Strugatsky’s series “Zone” and deals with traditional themes from Russia like power, justice and betrayal.

Red’s life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in alien products. He spends his time on a motorbike that he and his friends have named Bumblebee, stalking through the Zone unattended, picking up strange artifacts, and selling them to the highest bidders. When he sees an heirloom that will finally solve a riddle as old as time itself, Red feels sure that his life will change forever…

About Roadside Picnic Book

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, despite the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in 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, even though it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years.