Roadside Picnic

Roadside Picnic (Russian: ?????? ?? ???????, Piknik na obochine, IPA: [p??k?n?ik n? ??bot??n?e]) is a science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971, and first published in 1972. By 1998, 38 editions of the novel had been published in 20 countries. The novel was first translated into English by Antonina W. Bouis. The preface to the first American edition of the novel (Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1977) was written by Theodore Sturgeon. The film Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers.