Boris and Arkady, Russian authors difficult to get in print in English (in the UK). ---- Masters of using the naturalistic but truly alien to reflect on human fundamentals, most notably in ''Roadside Picnic'' [[ISBN 0575070536]], filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky (who also filmed Lem's ''Solaris'' [[ISBN 0156027607]]) under the title ''Stalker''. -- KeithBraithwaite Uhh. It's quite new for me - to call Andrei Tarkovsky a ''Stalker''. But nice... Why not ''Solaris'' (by Stanislav Lem)... -- AndreySidorenko ---- CategoryScienceFiction