Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika

The original novels were published in 1968 and 1972.

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits compelled to venture illegally into the Zone and collect the strange artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered there. His whole life, even the nature of his daughter, is determined by the Zone.

Tale of the Troika is a sequel to Monday Begins on Saturday and a satire on Soviet bureaucrazy.