The stalkers that go through them are a hard-bitten, cynical breed, similar to hardboiled detectives or mountain men, and Red is no exception. The rules work differently in the Zone- the rules of physics, seemingly the rules of cause and effect, and these changes are deadly. No one knows what is up with the Zone or the aliens, who made no meaningful purposeful contact with humanity. The main character, Red Schuhart, is a stalker- a guy who goes into the forbidden Zone to seek out artifacts the aliens left behind. All of them carry a heavy freight of existential dread and confusion. It’s the basis of the movie “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and the source of metaphor in Adam Curtis’s last documentary (which I thought was a little weak tbh). Name Asterisk on Review- Ma, “Harassment A…Īrkady and Boris Strugatsky, “Roadside Picnic” (1972) (translated from the Russian by Olena Bormashenko) – The site of alien contact with Earth gets all freaky and forbidding in this Soviet scifi tale.
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