Read through Roadside Picnic. Loved it. Very compact and efficient story at only a bit under 200 pages. The Zone, only visited twice, is fascinating, and the caricature-like writing of the characters took me a bit of getting used to but lends a lot of energy to the novel.
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A PDF of it is floating around the internet.
Made at least two movies from it, which didn't manage to capture the other-worldliness of the short story.
It makes me wish we had more looks into it from other parts of the world or even in different mediums (other books, games, etc) cause dammit, it's just genuinely interesting to see these different takes on it.
Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic.
To anyone unsure whether they'll read it or not, I say it's worth it. Amazing book and source of inspiration.
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Their stories need plenty footnotes not only because they wrote for an audience extremely sensitive to the subtext, but also they had to cut and cut their text until the censorship would let it through