Stalker - Stories inspired by Andrej Tarkowskij's movie Audiobook By B. E. Dantalion, J. Edwin Buja, Andrew Coulthard, Chris McAuley, Glynn Owen Barrass, Michael F. Housel, Nora Peevy, Sarah Walker cover art

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Stalker - Stories inspired by Andrej Tarkowskij's movie

By: B. E. Dantalion, J. Edwin Buja, Andrew Coulthard, Chris McAuley, Glynn Owen Barrass, Michael F. Housel, Nora Peevy, Sarah Walker
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"The Stalker" is Eighth Tower's tribute to the cinematic masterpiece "Stalker" (1979) by Russian director Andrej Tarkowskij. Tarkowskij 's second science fiction film after Solaris, "Stalker" is based on a novel by the Strugackij brothers, Arkadij and Boris, renowned authors of Soviet science fiction. The novel, titled "Roadside Picnic," was released in 1971. Tarkovskij adapted the basic literary work, written in the form of dispatches and intelligence reports, inspired by the Tunguska event of 1908—a probable impact in a remote Siberian area of a meteorite or possibly a comet.

The Zone is primarily the interior of a rural territory that has been disrupted by an unspecified event, perhaps the fall of a meteorite or the passage of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Within it, strange and mysterious events occur, and many people have disappeared. Above all, there is a rumor that a "Room" capable of fulfilling any desire is located within the Zone. After attempting to study the Zone, the military evacuated the population and restricted access. Scholars need special permits to enter. Only the Stalkers, guides who, for money, accompany anyone willing to try to reach the Room of Desires, challenging the authorities, venture into that territory. The world of "Stalker," filmed in Estonia, Russia, and Tajikistan, is a science fiction of inner space, reminiscent of Ballard, a dreamlike space. Leaning light poles, debris, abandoned huts. The film's world is heavily degraded and contaminated by trash, debris, and wreckage. A damp world, flooded, with puddles and rain. A disturbed world of a civilization now in a state of post-industrial decay.

In this anthology of unpublished stories, Eighth Tower and the writers involved in the project, pay passionate homage to this masterpiece of science fiction cinema and, more broadly, the history of cinema.
Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Stalker

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