I was just reading about how Stalker was a must-read Russian SF novel, when this popped up in Locus:
Russian author Boris Strugatsky, 79, died on November 19, 2012 in St. Petersburg, Russia from heart problems and pneumonia..." His brother Arkady died in 1991.
As they say, the Strugatsky Brothers wrote dozens of SF novels together, most famously Piknik na obochine, Roadside Picnic, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, and was made by Andrei Tarkovsky into his classic film, Stalker (1979). ..." Also made into a video game of the same name. More here...
The new translation of Roadside Picnic from Chicago Review Press has a foreword by Ursula Le Guin and is supposed to be good. I loved the film Stalker, back when I had time to bask in a three hour very slow movie, and will have to find this book...
Here's an old review from Strange Horizons of a former edition...
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