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Roadside Picnic
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Key facts
- Author
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Original title
- Пикник на обочине
- Translator
- Antonina W. Bouis
- Cover artist
- Richard M. Powers
- Language
- Russian
- Genre
- Science fiction Zone fiction
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Publication place
- Soviet Union
- Media type
- Print ( Hardcover )
- Pages
- 245 pp
- Isbn
- 0-02-615170-7
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- publication date
- 1972-00-00
- title
- Stalker
- inception
- 1971-00-00
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Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, romanized: Piknik na obochine, IPA: [pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbot͡ɕɪnʲe]) is a philosophical science fiction novel by the Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was written in 1971 and published in 1972, and is their most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union. As of 2003, Boris Strugatsky counted 55 publications of Roadside Picnic in 22 countries.
The story was published in English in a translation by Antonina W. Bouis. A preface to the first American edition was written by Theodore Sturgeon. Stanisław Lem wrote an afterword to the German edition of 1977.