to Roadside Picnic and Stalker. A skirmish wargame published in 2020 titled Zona Alfa featuring "skirmish rules for scavenging, exploring, and surviving in a near-future, post-apocalyptic Eastern European setting" in which players can "take on the role of bandits, mercenaries, and military units fighting over the blasted Exclusion Zone and its abandoned artefacts" was developed by Patrick Todoroff for Osprey Publishing. A VR game called Into The Radius is often compared to the VR equivalent of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series and is heavily influenced by the book. The Amazon Prime series Tales from the Loop, based on the book of the same title by Simon Stålenhag, is based on a similar premise to Roadside Picnic. In the series, there are many artefacts and phenomena scattered across the rural area surrounding the fictional town of Mercer, Ohio, which serve as critical plot devices. Abandoned metal spheres exhibiting strange effects lie abandoned in the woods; forest streams become inexplicably frozen or unfrozen, with time-altering effects; inter-dimensional rifts open and close; and an otherworldly, floating sphere, pulsing with seismic energy, is the target of scientific scrutiny. Each of these creates challenges for the characters, who seem at once bemused at, and accepting of, their existence. British-American 2021 science fiction television series Debris explores a similar premise. References External links Roadside Picnic, full English text (Antonina W. Bouis translation), archive at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Roadside Picnic, parallel text in Russian and English Review of the Roadside Picnic on the Infinity Plus website The SF Site Featured Review: Roadside Picnic Stanisław Lem about Roadside Picnic 1972 novels 1972 science fiction novels 1972 in the Soviet Union Fiction set around Deneb Novels by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Post-apocalyptic novels Books with cover art by Richard M. Powers Russian novels adapted into films Russian novels adapted into television shows Russian novels adapted into plays Novels set in the future Dystopian novels