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Roadside Picnic is the equivalent of LOTR or Neuromancer when it comes to defining a genre of pop culture. It was published 7 years before the movie Stalker.
by cptskippy 6y ago
Roadside Picnic is the equivalent of LOTR or Neuromancer when it comes to defining a genre of pop culture.
It was published 7 years before the movie Stalker.
It is a short novel and a great read, it is also a stark contrast to Western SciFi.
- kbenson 6y agoBoth Roadside Picnic from Russia and the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy from China have made me interested in Science Fiction from non-western cultures. There's a freshness of view that's hard to describe.
- fractallyte 6y agoThen definitely track down Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction series: https://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Macmillan%27s+Best+of+Soviet+Science+Fiction https://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Macmillan%27s+B... and: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?1107 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pubseries.cgi?1107 Think Roadside Picnic x 100, because that's the quantity of really excellent science fiction stories and ideas you can expect. A free (but bad) translation of 'Self Discovery' by Vladimir Savchenko is available if you search. I used this, together with my own physical copy, to make a proper ebook - let me know if you want a copy; I can't locate it at this moment... And, in my opinion, the finest science fiction short story ever written (apologies to Asimov's Nightfall and Godwin's The Cold Equations): Nine Minutes, by Genrikh Altov https://www.altshuller.ru/world/eng/science-fiction4.asp https://www.altshuller.ru/world/eng/science-fiction4.asp
- technofiend 6y agoNot sure if you consider him non-Western or not but if you haven't read him try Stanislaw Lem.