Fantastic "Food for Thought" Science Fiction! | "Roadside Picnic" Review!

A short review and my thoughts on the book "Roadside Picnic," by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This is an extremely famous example of Soviet science fiction, and it's obvious why from reading the book.

The book has a dark, almost nihilistic tone, and a very interesting, ambiguous ending. But more than that, it's full of a variety of imagination-stimulating science fiction ideas, from the relatively mechanical and mundane to the deep, subtle, and philosophical.

Two ways to enjoy this book linked here:
1) The Bouis translation I read, a bit clunky in places but available free here:
https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1973-2/...

2) A new translation and more enthusiastic presentation, with multiple forewords, including one by Boris Strugatsky and another by Ursula K. Le Guin:
https://a.co/d/cyWaZ1u

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