Goodreads asked Ville Vuorela:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ville Vuorela I have obviously been a fan of Strugatskys' work for a long time and in 2008 the late Boris Strugatsky gave me a license to use his immaterial property and effectively write things set in the same universe, as long as I kept my promise of modernizing the setting and producing my own fiction within the themes and frameworks of Roadside Picnic.

Writing a novel with that license was always on the table and I had already sketched some things out, but only in 2012, after my tabletop roleplaying game "Stalker" proved a niche success, did the publisher of my previous book, Finn Lectura, offer a deal on a "New Roadside Picnic" novel using that setting. After that I simply ran out of excuses :D

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