Roadside Picnic - Folio Society edition

Roadside Picnic

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Roadside Picnic - Folio Society edition
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Roadside Picnic
Folio Society
Science Fiction

Roadside Picnic

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Edition year 2023
Binding Paper
Illustrator Dave McKean
Translator Olena Bormashenko
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 240
Dimensions 25 × 15.6 cm

Edition details

Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. Seven double-page spread colour illustrations, including a double-sided fold-out by Dave McKean. Introduced by Dave McKean. Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin. Afterword by Boris Strugatsky. Translated by Olena Bormashenko. Printed in dark green ink with integrated illustrations. Bound in printed textured green paper, cover blocked with a colour image, gilt spine titling. Monochrome picture printed endpapers. Page edges digitally printed with a green pattern. Dark green slipcase, front blocked and printed with a colour image. 240pp. 25x15.6cm.

About the book

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky is a science fiction novel set after mysterious alien visitors have briefly landed on Earth and left behind dangerous areas known as Zones. These Zones contain strange objects and unexplained phenomena that humans struggle to understand. The story follows Redrick "Red" Schuhart, a stalker who illegally enters the Zone to collect valuable alien artifacts and sell them. Each journey puts his life at risk, and over time the Zone affects his family, relationships, and view of the world. The novel explores humanity's desire for knowledge, greed, morality, and the possibility that humans may be insignificant compared with advanced alien life. Overall, Roadside Picnic is a dark and thought-provoking story about people trying to survive and find meaning in the remains of an event they cannot fully understand.

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