num_pages: 160
description: 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.
language: English
title: Roadside Picnic
titlecomplete: Roadside Picnic (Penguin science fiction)
characters: Red Schuhart
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Fantasy, Russia, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 63203
places: Russia
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Graoully d'Or
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award
category: Long Form (Honorable Mention)
publisher: Penguin