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Roadside Picnic
General Fiction路边野餐
(russia) Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky
The Chernobyl nuclear meltdown was predicted 14 years in advance! Why don't aliens invade humans? "Roadside Picnic" gives you an extremely cruel answer. Aliens mysteriously visited the earth and then left, leaving behind six highly radioactive and highly polluted visit areas. For more than 30 years, those who came into contact with it either had their skin peeled off and died, or gave birth to deformed monsters. Zombies crawled out of nearby cemeteries and wandered around the world. But there are still some people who, in order to make a living, wander around the murderous visiting areas, reselling high-tech items left by aliens, and live a life of bloodshed. They are called "Stalkers". Fear of death, greed for money, resentment against fate... They gradually twisted and collapsed in the torture. However, if this catastrophe for mankind is just an unintentional roadside picnic by aliens, is it still worth all the painful struggles and all the weak hope in despair?
The Chernobyl nuclear meltdown was predicted 14 years in advance! Why don't aliens invade humans? "Roadside Picnic" gives you an extremely cruel answer. Aliens mysteriously visited the earth and then left, leaving behind six highly radioactive and highly polluted visit areas. For more than 30 years, those who came into contact with it either had their skin peeled off and died, or gave birth to deformed monsters. Zombies crawled out of nearby cemeteries and wandered around the world. But there are still some people who, in order to make a living, wander around the murderous visiting areas, reselling high-tech items left by aliens, and live a life of bloodshed. They are called "Stalkers". Fear of death, greed for money, resentment against fate... They gradually twisted and collapsed in the torture. However, if this catastrophe for mankind is just an unintentional roadside picnic by aliens, is it still worth all the painful struggles and all the weak hope in despair?