It’s clear very early on what a huge influence this book had on [a:Tarkovsky|16014|Andrei Tarkovsky|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1217349397p2/16014.jpg]. I couldn’t get that quote from Solaris out my head: “We don’t need other worlds, we need mirrors.” In some of the dialogue, I kep...
Well, this wasn't quite what I was expecting. I came into this knowing that the book was about the debris left behind by alien visitors to Earth, and that it posed questions around what humankind would do if we couldn't figure its mysteries. What if we found alien technology, and had no idea how to ...
Roadside Picnic is one of my favorite books. Six locations around the world exhibit unearthly phenomena, presumably caused by alien intervention. Dispersed in these so-called zones are various strange objects. The function of some is understood at least superficially while others remain enigmas. Ac...
I'd previously tried watching "Stalker," the movie that was loosely based upon "Roadside Picnic" but quit it about 15 minutes in, the Soviet stylings and sensibilities still too bleak for my psyche. The only reason I did get to reading the actual book is because I recently learned that many fans con...
Fascinatingly different. This sat on my "currently reading" shelf for months as I didn't actually read it. Then once I started, I finished it in a day. What happens when aliens drop by, have a picnic, leave behind all their garbage, and depart without ever even trying to talk to us? I still can't de...
I SO enjoyed this short novel.After aliens stopped near their town and left a bleak area filled with their refuse, individuals called Stalkers make a living retrieving and selling the castoffs.The psycholgical and physiological effects of the visit haunt the book, as characters make sense of the thi...
Being below the concern of alien beings is not a new science fiction theme (although it is a relatively rare one), but I've never read a book that examined the idea quite like this. Ursula K. Le Guin's foreword is right - most of the time, the people who interact with alien technology are highly ski...
Exactly the sort of SF I like (light on the science, long on the human impact of a changed world). This had so many great and horrible things jammed into it. It was tragic and funny, and the humor grew naturally from the tragic elements. It had a noir feel, too, which I generally am fond of. Excelle...
Le pondré 4 estrellas y media. Solo que no puedo ponerlas. En realidad esta bien loco y el final a mi me gusto un chingo. Si gustan del sci fi, definitivamente deben leerlo.
Aliens have visited the earth and left without seeming to have noticed the human race, the areas where the ships landed are now almost completely off-limits and are known as "The Zone".The visit itself has left the zone littered with various artifacts and environmental effects that are often fatal t...
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