Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Soviet science fiction films, Soviet science fiction novels, Soviet science fiction writers, We, Stalker, Solaris, Russian science fiction and fantasy, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, Prisoners of Power, Heart of a Dog, Guest from the Future, Kin-dza-dza!, Dmitri Bilenkin, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future, The Fatal Eggs, Vladimir Obruchev, The Mystery of the Third Planet, Space Mowgli, The Ugly Swans, Alexander Belyayev, Alexander Kazantsev, The Adventures of the Elektronic, Sannikov Land, Test pilota Pirxa, Aelita, The Garin Death Ray, Per Aspera Ad Astra, Polygon, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, Kosmicheskiy reys, Amphibian Man, The Time Wanderers, Yury Glazkov, The Doomed City, Moscow 2042, Moscow-Cassiopeia, Contact, Yaroslav Golovanov, Failure of Engineer Garin, The Sannikov Land, Dead Man's Letters, Mysterious Island, Teens in the Universe, Yeremey Parnov, The Andromeda Nebula, Svyatoslav Loginov, Vladislav Krapivin, New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Battle Beyond the Sun, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, Aerograd, Mikhail Yemtsev, Gennadiy Prashkevich, The Witches Cave, Lazar Lagin, Aelita Prize, The Land of Crimson Clouds, World Soul, Maleyevka seminars, Nothing But Ice, Sergey Snegov, Ariel, Ural Pathfinder, Visible Darkness. Excerpt: Stalker (Russian: ) is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic. It depicts an expedition led by the Stalker to bring his two clients to a site known as the Zone, which has the supposed potential to fulfil a person's innermost desires. The title of the film, which is the same in Russian and English, is derived from the English word to stalk in the long-standing meaning of approaching furtively, much like...