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Roadside Picnic

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
rus. Пикник на обочине · 1972
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Main Ideas

Main Ideas

  • Exploration of human nature through interaction with the unknown
  • Impact of external anomalies on human psyche and behavior
  • Critique of a society exhibiting greed and selfishness
  • Contrast between scientific approach and mystification in unraveling anomalies
  • Reflections on morality and ethics in extreme situations
  • Concept of the Zone as a place where ordinary rules of reality do not apply
Roadside Picnic
Date of publication: 28 May 2024
Updated: 9 July 2024
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Authors: 
Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Original title: rus. Пикник на обочине · 1972
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