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    <body><![CDATA[Roadside picnic sees Earth receiving Visitors from the direction of Deneb for a very brief time, leaving behind six Zones where they stayed, and a whole heap of very strange phenomena and artifacts are to be found in each.  Scientists want to study but there is a black market for artifacts brought o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54125197">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fantastic, I did not know of its existence until a few years ago when I had started playing the game Stalker.  The thought about an alien visitation leaving an uninhabited area with special artifacts that have powers was very unique.  When I started playing Stalker the subject of a zon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43968204">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Let's just say that Tarkovsky took a few liberties when he adapted this novel for the screen. There is a Zone, a leftover from some mysterious alien visit. There is a Stalker, who has a mutant daughter named Monkey. There is an object deep in the Zone that's believed to grant innermost wishes. That'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56565377">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found a pdf version of this book (in English) on its Wikipedia page. I came to find out about the book through the Andrei Tarkovsky film 'Stalker' (based on this work and also written by the Strugatsky brothers). The film is one of my favorite movies ever. The book expanded upon that world (but wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30486549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. Brimming with ideas, alternating between action, mystery, science fiction and makes a careful reader think about many of the things he takes for granted. The incredible analogy with the picnic makes the one reconsider the effect the human civilization makes on the whole planet, and yet h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79185574">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is only a 150 pages or so, but it is so far one of the best sci-fi books I have ever read. The basic premise is that the aliens came and went leaving only a space with a bunch of alien technology, diseases, and physical properties that defy all of our scientific ideas. These deadly things are g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32163682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The second I've read by the Soviet Sci-fi Brothers Strugatsky. Though sometimes clumsy, stemming from what I assume are translation errors, Roadside Picnic is a pretty awesome work. Interested to see how Tarkovsky adapts it in the film &quot;Stalker.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In a lot of scifi, the aliens come to Earth with a defined purpose. Share their advanced technology, enslave the human populace, etc. Roadside Picnic takes place after the aliens have come and gone, and no one really knows why they visited this planet. However, they did leave a lot of incomprehensib...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43436024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Any book that could inspire Tarkovsky to make &quot;Stalker&quot; is one I want to read. Even if it has two authors, which bothers me. And has what looks like testicles on the cover.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent collection of vignettes detailing the adventures of people who pick at the edges and corners of an alien incursion to the earth. As with the rest of the Strugatskis' best works, its not particularly nice to either capitalist or communist government systems; though, as always, its hard t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16374325">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The world building in this book is interesting. Yet the end was somewhat unsatisfying...hope it was just the translation ^^.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, one of the best of the Strugatsky books ive read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The setting was great, but there wasn't much meat to it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. I decided to read it because one of my favorite movies, 'Stalker' by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on it.<br/><br/>I now see that the book and movie are very different. The book is a famous Russian Sci-Fi classic. It comments upon different governmental models, soc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23941991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Habe mir endlich mal die Zeit genommen, diesen Klassiker zu lesen. Auch, um endlich mal den Film (Stalker) von Tarkowksy ansehen zu können. Gerade nachdem ich in letzter Zeit einige moderne russische SF gelesen habe, wird klar, wie stark die Strugatzki-Brüder in ihrem Land die heutigen Autoren bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72464028">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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