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Roadside Picnic - Best Soviet SF

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Publisher: Readers Union / The Science Fiction Book Club

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Summary

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits compelled to venture illegally into the Zone and collect the strange artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered there. His whole life, even the nature of his daughter, is determined by the Zone.
Available since: 05/16/2023.
Print length: 180 pages.

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