>For anyone interested, the 2012 English translation of Roadside Picnic
>(with a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin and an afterword by Boris
>Strugatsky) is currently on sale at the Amazon Kindle store for $2.99.

One of the comments on the audiobook version I have suggests skipping 7 minutes ahead to avoid spoilers in Le Guin's foreword, then coming back to it after you finish the book... which is odd, since the audiobook version I have does not include Le Guin's foreword. Still, I pass this data point along for whatever potential usefulness it may have.

The 2012 translation is the one to go for, either way, since it's based on a post-Soviet version in which Boris Strugatsky (Arkady had died by then) restored passages that were removed by order of Soviet censors from the book's earlier edition, and are thus missing from the original English translation.

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