And what do they see? Gas and oil spilled on the grass. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music.
A car drives off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out of the car carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras.
Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Pillman explains what he calls a roadside picnic on some road in the cosmos” that happens to be our planet Earth. It’s a Cold War classic depicting the U.S.S.R, but the Strugatsky brothers deny this.
The environment described is dour and utilitarian, inhabited by people on the verge of disfiguring mutations and suffering depression. There is no picnic.The picnic is a metaphor offered by knowledgeable scientist Valentine Pillman to explain the visitation by the extraterrestrials and the phenomenon of the debris. The Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic is somewhere in Canada, where specialists pick through the debris left by careless Extraterrestrial picnickers.
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