Roadside Picnic (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s and the early 2000’s
- Setting: Harmont, a town in Canada
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Extraterrestrial life, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Greed, Canada or Canadians, 1990’s, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats
- Locales: Canada, Harmont (fictive)
Characters Discussed
Redrick (Red) Schuhart, the protagonist, a daring, competent, and roguish “stalker” from the Visitation town of Harmont. He is nicknamed “Red” because of his bright red hair. A laboratory assistant at the Harmont Institute for Extraterrestrial Cultures at the age of twenty-three, with time he deals more and more in illegal Visitation Zone contraband. By the age of twenty-eight, he has only his illegal career. He remains insatiable in his desire to face the hidden terrors of the Zone and to find value (both material and spiritual) among the alien...
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