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zebra2 · 3945 days ago · link · · parent · post: Scifi club: Roadside Picnic discussion/suggestions for club #2
You're definitely right about the story resonating with the soviet nuclear program. It does seem pretty plausible that there's a massive analogy with nuclear tech here. Not long before then, the effects of radiation were practically magic to us. Fun fact: after the Chernobyl disaster a lot of the language from the story (or maybe Stalker) was picked up: the area became the "zone", and those who went in to construct or repair the reactor sarcophagus became "stalkers".