#roadsidepicnic — Public Fediverse posts

#PsychicDrool | Just what is the ending to Roadside Picnic all about?

Here I argue that the last chapter of the fantastic book Roadside Picnic has two subtly different readings, both of which are perfectly acceptable ways to look at it.

https://www.psychicdrool.site/just-what-is-the-ending-to-roadside-picnic-all-about/

#RoadsidePicnic #Strugatsky #Novel #Criticism #Scifi #ScienceFiction

#PsychicDrool | Just what is the ending to Roadside Picnic all about?

Here I argue that the last chapter of the fantastic book Roadside Picnic has two subtly different readings, both of which are perfectly acceptable ways to look at it.

https://www.psychicdrool.site/just-what-is-the-ending-to-roadside-picnic-all-about/

#RoadsidePicnic #Strugatsky #Novel #Criticism #Scifi #ScienceFiction

I'm doing a blog post about #RoadsidePicnic and ...

idk

I'm doing a blog post about #RoadsidePicnic and ...

idk

So, that essay by #StanislawLem about #RoadsidePicnic is really very good.

He talks about he raison d'etre of alien invasions. Well considered.

It's a good essay.

#Scifi #ScienceFiction

So, that essay by #StanislawLem about #RoadsidePicnic is really very good.

He talks about he raison d'etre of alien invasions. Well considered.

It's a good essay.

#Scifi #ScienceFiction

Musings on Andrei Tarkovsky, creating a dreamscape inside an imploded bunker and why this may matter even (or especially) in these devastating times
https://allureofruins.substack.com/p/roadside-picnic

#tarkovsky #stalker #abandoned #dreamscape #memory #fallingsideways
#RoadsidePicnic

Well, I may as well share my #review of #RoadsidePicnic as well! This one was much shorter, but has a lot of great stuff in it, really a great way for me to end my reading journey this year!

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/roadside-picnic/

Well, I may as well share my #review of #RoadsidePicnic as well! This one was much shorter, but has a lot of great stuff in it, really a great way for me to end my reading journey this year!

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/roadside-picnic/

I finished #RoadsidePicnic, that was a good one! It was a very different take on a popular trope and I devoured it in three days, just like Farewell, Earth's Bliss.

I have 3 reviews on queue now, and I have read 15 books this year! New record yaaay

Here are some stats

#ScienceFiction #Reading #Books2024

I finished #RoadsidePicnic, that was a good one! It was a very different take on a popular trope and I devoured it in three days, just like Farewell, Earth's Bliss.

I have 3 reviews on queue now, and I have read 15 books this year! New record yaaay

Here are some stats

#ScienceFiction #Reading #Books2024

Continuing my read of #RoadsidePicnic

I'm already 3/4 of the way through, very comfy to read at grandma's house †

#Books2024 #ScienceFiction #Reading #Bookstodon

Continuing my read of #RoadsidePicnic

I'm already 3/4 of the way through, very comfy to read at grandma's house †

#Books2024 #ScienceFiction #Reading #Bookstodon

Started #Reading #RoadsidePicnic given yesterday's poll and I like it! I am 51% of the way, I may get to 70% or so today!

Via my #Kobo with #KOReader

#Books2024 #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bookstodon

Started #Reading #RoadsidePicnic given yesterday's poll and I like it! I am 51% of the way, I may get to 70% or so today!

Via my #Kobo with #KOReader

#Books2024 #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bookstodon

Pacific Drive is essentially Subnautica: Escape from Roadside Picnic, and it tickles my fancy in all the right ways.

Such a well-made game, too.

#games #gaming #IndieGameDev #PacificDrive #RoadsidePicnic

He sido un fan de la película #Stalker de Andrei Tarkovski (probablemente mi película favorita de él) desde hace años.
Pero nunca había leído la novela en la que estaba basada: #picnicextraterrestre (o su título original: #roadsidepicnic) de los hermanos Strugatsky.
Me ha encantado el universo que han creado así como los personajes y los diálogos de éstos.
Es diferente en muchos aspectos a la película de Tarkovski, lo cuál hace que ambas obras se aprecien sin pisarse los talones una a la otra.

Stumbled on a good podcast about and around the book #RoadsidePicnic by #ArkadyAndBorisStrugatsky.

The participants are fairly diverse and knowledgable and successfully walk a line between seriousness and fun.

There is even a passing reference to a previous episode on #TheRingsOfSaturn by #WGSebald.

#StrugatskyBrothers #Backlisted #Bookstadon

Edit: Replacing link after Trumpist experience with SoundCloud.
https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/r2thixnpbdzycz4d0g71ekbfq0djgb

Stumbled on a good podcast about and around the book #RoadsidePicnic by #ArkadyAndBorisStrugatsky.

The participants are fairly diverse and knowledgable and successfully walk a line between seriousness and fun.

There is even a passing reference to a previous episode on #TheRingsOfSaturn by #WGSebald.

#StrugatskyBrothers #Backlisted #Bookstadon

Edit: Replacing link after Trumpist experience with SoundCloud.
https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/r2thixnpbdzycz4d0g71ekbfq0djgb

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/23/the-most-forbidden-zone-of-all/
You know that science fiction trope about dangerous forbidden zones that warp reality? I think they're symbolic. There's a reason why themes become tropes. Must be something on our minds...
#Culture, #Thoughts, #Annihilation, #Creativity, #MJohnHarrison, #Nova Swing, #Psychology, #RoadsidePicnic, #ScienceFiction, #tropes, #Unconscious

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/08/23/the-most-forbidden-zone-of-all/
You know that science fiction trope about dangerous forbidden zones that warp reality? I think they're symbolic. There's a reason why themes become tropes. Must be something on our minds...
#Culture, #Thoughts, #Annihilation, #Creativity, #MJohnHarrison, #Nova Swing, #Psychology, #RoadsidePicnic, #ScienceFiction, #tropes, #Unconscious

Just got through season one, and I hope I'm not spoiling anything....But I genuinely believe #From is based on #RoadsidePicnic

Just got through season one, and I hope I'm not spoiling anything....But I genuinely believe #From is based on #RoadsidePicnic

Small comparison #drawing: Suffix Measure (Sky). #mixedmedia on #paper, 7.5” x 5.75”
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#art #contemporaryart #abstractart #textart #Tarkovsky #Stalker #Strugatsky #RoadsidePicnic

@linm @montag
1/2
Yes Picnic is really good.

Stalker movie and Picnic book are about as unrelated as a movie that claims connection to a book can be.

The book is gritty, ugly and about humans and greed.

The movie - could almost be a LSD weekend on an abandoned farm. Maybe the psychonauts have read Picnic recently and so Picnic motifs are hallucinated?

#RoadsidePicnic #StrutgaskyBros #Bookstodon

@linm @montag
1/2
Yes Picnic is really good.

Stalker movie and Picnic book are about as unrelated as a movie that claims connection to a book can be.

The book is gritty, ugly and about humans and greed.

The movie - could almost be a LSD weekend on an abandoned farm. Maybe the psychonauts have read Picnic recently and so Picnic motifs are hallucinated?

#RoadsidePicnic #StrutgaskyBros #Bookstodon

New instance, new #introduction part 2 (reposted from my previous instance):

#7Books is agony, so #14books it is:

— #Imajica by Clive Barker
— #Orlando by Virginia Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Susanna Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by Nick Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Helen Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by the Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Donna Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by Cormac McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Scott Hawkins

Ok, I fibbed. One last go-to comfort re-read: the #Discworld series, also by Terry Pratchett (Is listing an entire series cheating? I can't possibly pick one. Sorry not sorry.)

#NoSuchThingAsTooManyBooks #ComicsDeserveTheirOwnList #Bookstodon #BooksOfMastodon

New instance, new #introduction part 2 (reposted from my previous instance):

#7Books is agony, so #14books it is:

— #Imajica by Clive Barker
— #Orlando by Virginia Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Susanna Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by Nick Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Helen Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by the Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Donna Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by Cormac McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Scott Hawkins

Ok, I fibbed. One last go-to comfort re-read: the #Discworld series, also by Terry Pratchett (Is listing an entire series cheating? I can't possibly pick one. Sorry not sorry.)

#NoSuchThingAsTooManyBooks #ComicsDeserveTheirOwnList #Bookstodon #BooksOfMastodon

I haven't Read #RoadsidePicnic in about 15 years, and on someone's mention of it, it seems like a good thing to buy with one of my remaining Audible credits. I look at it. It's narrated by Robert Forster. Talk about an easy sell.

Watching Stalker - 1979

#stalker #film #movie #AndreiTarkovsky #RoadsidePicnic #NowWatching

Very exciting package arrived today

#Yuri #SovietScienceFiction #OthersidePicnic #RoadsidePicnic

#7Books is agony, so #14books it is (novels only):

— #Imajica by Barker
— #Orlando by Woolf
— #GoodOmens by Gaiman & Prachett
— #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrel by Clarke
— #TheSouthernReachTrilogy by @jeffvandermeer
— #DearSenthuran by Emezi
— #TheGoneAwayWorld by @Harkaway
— #WhiteIsForWitching by Oyeyemi
— #RoadsidePicnic by Brothers Strugatsky
— #AllTheBirdsInTheSky by @charliejane
— #Carmilla by Le Fanu
— #TheGoldfinch by Tartt
— #BloodMeridian by McCarthy
— #TheLibraryAtMountChar by Hawkins