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Or better yet, Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers which the film was based on.

• pantalaimon 12y ago
  But this doesn't have anything to do with radiation
  • joshvm 12y ago
    Not directly, and neither does the film, but the entire 'Zone' trope was popularised in Roadside Picnic almost 15 years before the Chernobyl disaster.
  • ethbro 12y ago
    It does and does not have to do with radiation with the same relationship that post-WWII Japanese media features. Sometimes it's more interesting to write a story about the effects and meaning of a thing, rather than the thing itself.