<Li> In 2003, the Finnish theater company Circus Maximus produced a stage version of Roadside Picnic, called Stalker . Authorship of the play was credited to the Strugatskys and to Mikko Viljanen and Mikko Kanninen . </Li> <Li> A tabletop roleplaying game in 2012 called Stalker was developed by Ville Vuorela of Burger Games with the permission of Boris Strugatsky . The game was originally released in 2008 in Finnish by the same author . </Li> <Li> M. John Harrison's novel Nova Swing (2007), which features a location called the' Event Zone' where reality is skewed in various ways, can be seen to be influenced by Roadside Picnic . </Li> <Li> A Finnish low - budget indie film Vyöhyke (Zone), directed by Esa Luttinen, was released in 2012 . The film is set in a Finnish visitation zone, and refers to material in the novel as well as the Tarkovsky film . </Li>

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