Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Valentine Pilman, who compares the Visitation to a picnic:Ī picnic. The title of the novel derives from an analogy proposed by the character Dr. The zones exhibit strange and dangerous phenomena not understood by humans, and contain artifacts with inexplicable, seemingly supernatural properties.
Neither the Visitors themselves nor their means of arrival or departure were ever seen by the local populations who lived inside the relatively small areas, each a few square kilometers, of the six Visitation Zones. Roadside Picnic is a work of fiction based on the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that simultaneously took place in half a dozen separate locations around Earth over a two-day period. In Russian, after Tarkovsky's film, the term acquired the meaning of a guide who navigates forbidden and uncharted territories later on, fans of industrial tourism, especially those visiting abandoned sites and ghost towns, were also called stalkers. The authors say they took the term from the Stalky & Co novel. In the book, stalkers are people who trespass into the forbidden area known as the Zone and steal its valuable extraterrestrial artifacts, which the stalkers sell. The term stalker became a part of the Russian language and, according to the authors, became the most popular of their neologisms.
The 1979 film Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers.
The book has been the source of many adaptations and other inspired works in a variety of media, including stage plays, video game, and television series. Stanislaw Lem wrote an afterword to the German edition of 1977. A preface to the first American edition was written by Theodore Sturgeon. The story is published in English in a translation by Antonina W. As of 2003, Boris Strugatsky counted 55 publications of Roadside Picnic in 22 countries. It is the brothers' most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union. Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, Piknik na obochine, IPA: ) is a philosophical science fiction novel by Soviet-Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, written in 1971 and published in 1972.
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