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Roadside Picnic

Written by: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Narrated by: Robert Forster
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 Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he’ll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.
 Classics Dystopian Fiction First Contact Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
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good narrator, great story

I'm listening to this while playing stalker-like games and it helps with the vibe. would recommend.

amazing!

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Overall very interesting and engaging, really keeps you wondering at times and invested in the story and its characters. narration is overall well done but maybe one or two other voices would have really benefitted the experience. Narrator is good but feels a little flat at times.

Roadside Picnic

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Science and technology are not always the solution to our problems. There is no golden orb that grants wishes. Why do we still seek it?

The narrator was really good and gave the essence of the stalker character. The accent was wrong.

Unique

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Watched Andrei Tarcokvski ‘ Stalker twice, and decide to check out the book. The movie was great, and did not just retold the story, so it did not steal the thunder of the book. The ending gives me a big punch! I love sci-fi and did not expect a Soviet era sci-fi could pack such a big punch. The performance is amazing. 2 minutes into the audio I already figured who the voice was. His voice added the extra suspense and yugen feeling.

Amazing story, ending give me a huge punch!

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Really well written book that instilled a lifetime of fascination with the The Zone. Narrators tone is perfect and suitable for the story.

Perfect from start to finish

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