> I've been listening to the audiobook of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, the 1972 novel that inspired the Soviet sci-fi film Stalker and, much later, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl et al.

Other recent works that were inspired by the novel include the novel/manga/anime series Otherside Picnic and the game Pacific Drive.