Roadside Picnic & Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika

( Russian - Piknik na Obochine - 1977 )

Book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translated by Antonina W.Bouis

( R./P. + T.o.t.T. )

Published: MacMillan - hardback - 1977
ISBN: ?

Pocket Books - paperback - 1978
ISBN: ?

Contents
Introduction ( Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika ) - (1977) - essay by Theodore Sturgeon
Roadside Picnic -novel
Tale of the Troika - Monday Begins on Saturday ( 2 ) - (1968) - novel ( aka Skazka o troike )

( R.P.only )

Gollancz - hardback - 1978
ISBN: 0575024453 / 9780575024458

Readers Union / Science Fiction Book Club - hardback - 1978
ISBN: none

Penguin - paperback - 1979
ISBN: 014005135X / 9780140051353

Pocket Books ( Timescape ) - paperback - 1982
ISBN: 0671458426 / 9780671458423

Gollancz ( SF Collectors' Edition ) - paperback - 2000
ISBN: 0575070536 / 9780575070530

Gollancz ( SF Masterworks ) - paperback - 2007
ISBN: 0575079789 / 9780575079786

( translated by Olena Bormashenko )

  • Chicago Review Press - trade paperback - 2012
ISBN: 1613743416 / 9781613743416

Gollancz ( SF Masterworks ) - trade paperback - 2012
ISBN: 0575093137 / 9780575093133


Synopsis
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths.

Awards
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, Long Form Honorable Mentions, 2013