Happiness for All

“HAPPINESS FOR ALL, FOR FREE, AND LET NO ONE LEAVE OFFENDED!!!”

Those words were spoken by stalker Redrik Shuhart at the bottom of a pit, finding the Golden Ball that grants any wish. That’s where the famous novel by the Strugatsky brothers “Roadside Picnic” ends.

But what happened next?

For more than forty years, since the release of the cult work, fans of Russian science fiction have been asking that question. And now, finally, Dmitry Silov has written a novel that is a direct continuation of Red Shuhart’s story.

What awaits the famous stalker after he returns from the Zone to his native Khar’mon’t? How will his stated wish affect the future of the distant Chernobyl Exclusion Zone—and the fate of Sniper, well known to fans of the “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.” series, “Kremlin 2222,” and “The Rose of the Worlds”?