Roadside Picnic: SF Masterworks Jean-Pierre Melville Nearly two decades later

Nearly two decades later

to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis

Marie Claire

how the books he read influenced him

screenwriter Pupi Avati

Roadside Picnic: SF Masterworks Jean-Pierre Melville Nearly two decades laterThe Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic Russian sci fi film Stalker. Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien