Roadside Picnic

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
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Roadside Picnic

Aspanna
9/14/2015
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A really unique take on First Contact genre. We always imagined aliens either as vicious, bloodthirsty monsters or as peaceful, transcended saviours. What if they were just indifferent to our presence? What if that First Contact was just a Roadside Picnic for them? They would leave their trash behind and we would devote the rest of our lives exploring their leftovers in awe.

We are pretty good in messing with things we don't understand, even though we know how dangerous this is. This novel takes this premise to a whole new level.

Just amazing.