: Remove redirect← Previous revisionRevision as of 11:51, 9 October 2026 Line 23: Line 23: }} }} '''''Roadside Picnic''''' ({{langx|ru|Пикник на обочине|Piknik na obochine}}, {{IPA|ru|pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbot͡ɕɪnʲe|IPA}}) is a [[philosophical]] [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by the [[Soviet]] authors [[Arkady and Boris Strugatsky]]. It was written in 1971 and published in 1972, and is their most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union. As of 2003, Boris Strugatsky counted 55 publications of ''Roadside Picnic'' in 22 countries.{{cite book |author=Стругацкий Борис |title=Comments on the past |url=http://www.rusf.ru/abs/sb2003.htm |publisher=СПб.: Амфора |year=2003 |isbn=5-94278-403-5}} '''''Roadside Picnic''''' ({{langx|ru|Пикник на обочине|Piknik na obochine}}, {{IPA|ru|pʲɪkˈnʲik nɐ ɐˈbot͡ɕɪnʲe|IPA}}) is a [[philosophical fiction|philosophical]] [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by the [[Soviet]] authors [[Arkady and Boris Strugatsky]]. It was written in 1971 and published in 1972, and is their most popular and most widely translated novel outside the former Soviet Union. As of 2003, Boris Strugatsky counted 55 publications of ''Roadside Picnic'' in 22 countries.{{cite book |author=Стругацкий Борис |title=Comments on the past |url=http://www.rusf.ru/abs/sb2003.htm |publisher=СПб.: Амфора |year=2003 |isbn=5-94278-403-5}} The story was published in [[English language|English]] in a translation by [[Antonina W. Bouis]]. A preface to the first [[United States|American]] edition{{cite book|title=Пикник на обочине|last1=Strugatsky|first1=Arkady|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Publisher, Ltd.]]|year=1977|location=New York|last2=Strugatsky|first2=Boris|trans-title=Roadside Picnic|translator-last=Bouis|translator-first=Antonina W.|translator-link=Antonina W. Bouis}} was written by [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. [[Stanisław Lem]] wrote an afterword to the [[German language|German]] edition of 1977. The story was published in [[English language|English]] in a translation by [[Antonina W. Bouis]]. A preface to the first [[United States|American]] edition{{cite book|title=Пикник на обочине|last1=Strugatsky|first1=Arkady|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Publisher, Ltd.]]|year=1977|location=New York|last2=Strugatsky|first2=Boris|trans-title=Roadside Picnic|translator-last=Bouis|translator-first=Antonina W.|translator-link=Antonina W. Bouis}} was written by [[Theodore Sturgeon]]. [[Stanisław Lem]] wrote an afterword to the [[German language|German]] edition of 1977.