Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic (Science Fiction Archaeology)

The Zone Returns! William Burroughs? No. Tarkovsky? You know, Stalker? before the whole George Clooney Solaris thing? No. Arkady and Boris, originators of the Stalker. Roadside picnic. Tarkovsky. Apocalypse. doom. Burroughs. wastelands. Strugatsky brothers. pure gold. This is one of those science fiction classics with the annoying habit of being out of print. No wonder the world is in such a horrible state. Because the trash of human race will appear as its own zone, and no one will be left to wander the fields of archaeological trash. This book should be cast in bronze, or at least some high-tech nanomolecular structure, so that it can settle in its own post-apocalyptic mausoleum to our dead race. Not that its a pessimistic viewpoint, or anything. Its just scientific.

- Zone Stalker [Jan 6 2007 10:49 AM]