Roadside Picnic (16) (Rediscovered Classics)

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Olena Bormashenko, Ursula K. Le Guin

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,” somethi…