Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — Roadside Picnic - the book that inspired Stalker and Metro 2033!

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Roadside Picnic - the book that inspired Stalker and Metro 2033!

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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of the young rebels who venture illegally into the Zone, one of six areas on Earth that have been profoundly changed by the visitation of aliens to Earth. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,” something goes wrong. And despite the danger,…

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