jonathan.brodsky rated Roadside Picnic: 4 stars

Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky (SF Collector's Edition)
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture …
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture …
This was brilliant. There is so much in it that I would not have picked up as a kid, but now it spoke very strongly to me. The notion of the conflict being an externalized version of the main character, the rambling pace that it took, and the focus on trust was all excellent.
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.
In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue …
The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and …
IN THE WORLD OF THE NEAR FUTURE, WHO WILL CONTROL WOMEN'S BODIES?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of …
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled …
good post human sci fi. It gets a bit difficult to follow at points because the characters inhumanity is core to the story line, and the real analogs for the things they are don't map right.
When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of …
3rd printing
the plot was pretty standard pot boiler, with some scenes that I have seen before a bunch of times. But the setting was amazing, totally believable resource scarcity.
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Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him …
STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS.
Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with …
Der Astronaut Mark Watney war auf dem besten Weg, eine lebende Legende zu werden, schließlich war er der erste Mensch …