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A first Folio edition, first printing of Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, published by The Folio Society, London in 2023, with illustrations and introduction by Dave McKean. A fine copy free from internal inscriptions in a fine slip-case.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic is a landmark Soviet science-fiction novel set after mysterious alien “Visitations” leave behind dangerous Zones filled with baffling artifacts and phenomena. It follows Redrick “Red” Schuhart, a stalker who illegally enters the Zone to recover valuable objects. Dark, philosophical and suspenseful, the novel explores humanity’s insignificance, greed, hope and the unknowability of alien intelligence. Its haunting atmosphere later inspired Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker and generations of science fiction worldwide.
