I'm surprised nowhere in the article does it mention the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)
They are loosely based on the novel, however perhaps more well known (in the US at least) than the book or movie.
They are loosely based on the novel, however perhaps more well known (in the US at least) than the book or movie.
Is it only because of the game and its similarities to both novel and movie?
The game just expanded that connection, mashing up Chernobyl history and Stalker/Picinic details, and brought it to the western gamer audience.
If part of Australia was overrun by biker gangs I'm sure people would start calling it the Max Max zone. Same thing.
To a lesser or different degree, you see the same approach in videogames, software development, etc.
Half the book reads like Dante's Inferno. Like its not supposed to be taken literally, but I'm not the right audience to get the references.
There's a certain mind set in all of the Russian literature I've read that I find extremely appealing. I haven't read that much, but found that same mindset even in the older stuff like War and Peace, or Master and Margarita.