{"product_id":"roadside-picnic-9781613743416","title":"Roadside Picnic","description":"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. First published in 1972, \u003ci\u003eRoadside Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chicago Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781613743416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2012 pg. 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscover\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2012 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012 pg. 92\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38521720275125,"sku":"9781613743416","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_65e369f4-a270-4eb2-92fd-68e1770f523a.jpg?v=1613487100","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/roadside-picnic-9781613743416","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}