![]() ![]() Roadside Picnic ( Пикник на обочине) focuses on the Zones of Alienation, where debris and items left behind by visiting extraterrestrials are concentrated. ![]() A roadside picnic, on some road in the cosmos.Ī novel by the Strugatsky brothers, written in 1971 and published in 1972. ![]() And of course, the usual mess - apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire cans, bottles, somebody's handkerchief, somebody's penknife, torn newspapers, comics, faded flowers picked in another meadow. Rags, burnt out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind. Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around. And what do they see? Gas and oil spilled on the grass. The animals, birds and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. A car drives off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out of the car carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. ![]()
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