STALKER Books?

[Nevrox]

Alright, first of all, sorry for posting this in the Video Games thread but since it is about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I thought it would be appropriate here.

I mostly wanted to ask about the books since Dark Angel had mentioned them the other day.

Two questions for now...

Are they any good?

and

Is there a English version of them so I don't have to go and learn fluent Russian?

[Bl★ck Star]

Yeah same but like i heard from Darkangel there are only Russia and if so Darkangel translate them :O





DAMN YOU DARKANGEL AND YOUR RUSSIAN KNOWLEDGE !

[Bagelz]

The books are Russian only, and it's gonna be awhile before a publisher in the US translates them. I doubt GSC is going to either.

[Silver Knight]

The book is what STALKER is based on, it's called "RoadSide Picnic"



Use a better title next time..

[Dark Angel]

The book is what STALKER is based on, it's called "RoadSide Picnic"



Use a better title next time..

This is the old book i'll now post 1st chapter of 8th book

The book i'm reading are based on game canon and published by GSC

[Dark Angel]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Book 8 "ClearSky"


Chapter 1 "Conductor"

I know for sure that most of you ever thought "Who's fault is it?"
Who's fault is that your kids , mothers , fathers , sisters and brothers die? Who's fault is that your house is destroyed and the city lays in ruins and for your life you have to fight with weapon? Are you interested who's fault is it? Evil genius scientists who went crazy , fatal military mistake , nature or something els? You want to know it?
Well...you know what i'm going to answer?
Ofcourse it's human's fault. Only Human is the one who made nice and green place become grey-brown radiactive wasteland.
If you are waiting for somekind of speech about human's suicide life style , which leads to self destruction ,well then you won't get it. Maybe , it is so , i won't argue. Right now i'm talking only about one person , who caused death of thousands of people. I'm talking about myself!
Yes yes! It's me! It's my fault! I'm the murder , i'm the killer of humanity...
You want to judge me? You wany payback?
Well come then! I'm waiting for brave people who are ready to become heroes , because it's gonna be hard for you to get me! Here i'm! Laying on a bed surrounded by burnt mattress. Springs are melted in my body , hands and legs are melted together with them too , the bed it self goes thrue my ribs and some organs. I don't know which ones actually fuck it thought , they are still not working. My head grew together with a wood plank at the end of the bed , i know it because i can see it abit. Whole skin dried and i don't know when i ate or drunk something , it been a while since i could feel the taste of food or liquid in my mouth. I don't understand how this bitch keeps me alive. Well i actually can't call it a "Life" just can't Ha-Ha-Ha! As i'm not actually alive anymore atleast it seems so.
"But i'm thinking which means that i'm real!" Retard who said this thing couldn't even immagine that he was right. I'm still here and i'm still real.
Fuck it...
This bitch toke everything from me , she left me only pain and memories



**Memories**

"Aren't you afraid of walking in the zone with sucha huge amount of money?" The trader slowly places the money infront of me "Maybe, you could leave this money to me for safety? As soon as you decide to leave just visit me and take the money."
"I've already decided."I interrupted his sentance.
Trader stopped and looked at me "Seriously?"
With a nod and a hand sign i told him to continue the money counting.
I Didn't want to waste a second in the "Zone". I've already wasted enough time here.
As soon as trader returned counting the money he asked: "Got any place to stay ? I mean out of the perimiter. I've got a friend there who could help you to get a place where to stay , find a job and put your money in a good place.".
Yeah i know those sucha called "Friends" , no thank you...
I answered him "I'll make it my self without help".
Trader finished counting and loading the money in the suitcase + added a white sheet of paper with a phone number on it.
"Maybe you will change your mind"
"No i won't" Answerd i taking the paper out of the suitcase and placing it on the counter.
Trader stared at me for a few seconds and then noded and asked:
"Something els?"
I toke a fast look at the stuff trader had.
"Got bullets for <> ?"
"Modified or not?" Asked the trader.
"Both are fine."
Trader went to the backroom and came back with four boxes in his hands.
"Here take it , 2 for each-"
Trader placed the boxes on the counter but kept his hand on them.
I looked at him with not understanding face. We started staring in each other's eyes and none wanted to give up.
"This" said the traider "Is a present as we won't meet again , but only if you tell me where is that "Creamy" place. THe one where you got whole this expenisve stuff."
For a few moments we just stared at each other and then i decided "I guess i should tell him as i don't need it anymore" and i smiled.
As i toke the boxes with bullets from trader's hands , i threw them in my backpack and toke a few rubs from the suitcase and gave them to trader "Zone gave me the stuff".
I turned around taking the suitcase and walked out of the trader's shop.

Bus was making alot of noise as it's engine was dying from it's age and the road was almost destroyed. I layed covered weapon between my legs and holded the backpack with suitcase in my hands , i was sitting near the window as it was the most comfortable place in the bus.
I don't think that sucha kind of travling to the zone and out of it is very popular but still there were no free seats left in the bus. An old lady sat near me holding her old bag on her knees. She was loudly chatting with her friend who was sitting infrot of her. They discussed their old friend , i didn't actually listen to it just heard. With my forehead on the dirty glass i was looking thrue the window , i saw bright sun but i had to cover my eyes as it was too birght. It's so good to feel sun's heat. Only in the <> sun is cold and only gives light. There in the perimiter it's like you are behind the an invisible glass thrue wich you can observe beautiful sun drop and other things , even usual lightnings made my jaw fall open , but it seemd so human made and unreal.
"How's you duty?"suddenly asked the lady who was sitting near me.
"Wha-?" I turned around looking at her.
She warmly smiled looking at me as she thought that my <> are standart military uniform.
"My son is also in army , he visited me month ago" She started shoveling in her bag and toke out a cookie.
"Here take it boy , on your duty even sucha small thing will make you feel better."
"Thank you" Answered i.
"For how long?" Asked the lady.
"Forever..." I answered her looking at the cookie.
"Oh ! Your mother is gonna be happy for sure!" Said the lady and smiled.
"Yeah" I made a small pause "Happy..."
The friendly energy which was coming from the lady almost tied me up as i already forgot about <> .
I fell a sleep but soon woke up as the bus was still shaking and making noise , but i was happy as each shake was getting me closer to my home.
Normal life crushed on me as soon as i steped out of the bus. My fast instincts wich were saving my life in the <> went crazy and i almost fell on my knees. While walking among the old familiar streets of my town , i barley could keep my self calm. I was staring in people's faces trying to understand what they are going to do and each time i did it i said to my self "Damn stop it , it's not <>! None cares about you! They all have works , familys and children who are in the kindergarden!"
I started staring at the ground but people still felt my <> and made circles to walk past me and it made me feel safer that they kept away. And still... to keep away from shaking from a little boy running behind me or cars or even planes costed me alot of nerves and fingers were adding more and more pressure to the covered weapon.
As soon as i turned in the tunnel wich was leading to my hood i calmed down as i didn't see thoes roads full of cars and streets full of people.
Walls full of diffrent sprays , somewhere abit broken walls , abit empty , all the same was in the <> but here it looked not like in the <> . Somehow common ? If you looked closer you could notice that the wall was fixed lately , garbage and sprays on the wall had diffrent meaning from the ones wich i have seen in the <> ... yeah it was life not only death here.
From the hood there was a group of four guys walking toward me. They were pushing each other and laughing , well clothed , athletic. I got closer to the wall to let them past but one of them hit me with a sholder and didn't do it by mistake.
"Hey mate forgot how to walk already!? Now only in a line?!"
They stopped and turned around looking at me. Their fun dissapeared as it would be blown away. They had angry or even evil eyes. I wanted to leave but one of the grabbed me by the coat.
"Stop! Where are you going now!? I'm talking to you! Trying to show off?!"
His friend made abit room for him and pushed me against the wall. I fastly looked at them and rated them. The one who grabbed me looked the strongest and he seems to be the most dangerous one , but the rest three seem to be smaller so they are not as dangerous as the one who grabbed me...
With a fast move i kicked the guy back and stepped back in the empty part of the tunnel. Somrthing shined for a second , i guess it's knife , but well fuck it. I toke out my <> and aimed the men. My brain started calmly and fastly thinking " Two on the right are standing close to each other , one bullet will be enough , and the bigger one will get a custom bullet."
My finger started squeezing the trigger slowly.
"Stop it's not <>!!" Yelled my brain.
This signal from my brain was like a sharp knife cutting my head. My back became wet and my throat dried.
I don't know what stopped the guys , a weapon pointed at them , my animal eyes or the voice wich started shaking when i said "Get out of here..."
I got scared because i understood that i can run from the <> but she's still hidden in me. She is now living in my body and started growing like a plant.
I looked at the guys as they were retreating and looking at me , they were not scared , they were angry and i've never seen sucha anger before. Why didn't they like me? Is it because i didn't let them beat me ? Fucking motherfuckers , animals damn if i could i would throw you in the zone!
"We will see you again brother" Said sucha called gang leader .
When i walked out of the tunnel i understood that neither i or the gang were in the zone and it's not common here to walk with weapon in the hands. I covered my <> and fastly looked around , i saw only 2 little kids playing in the middle of the hood.
It's good. And i hurried to my flat. I wasted whole my day cleaning the flat because while i was away whole flat was covered with dust carpet. I used rag clothe and a bucket of water to clean the mess.
In the evening everything was done and i was happy now. Final part of my returning was starting the clock.
I drank some tea and went to bed.
Unfrotunatly i couldn't falls a sleep some kind of alert was alerting my body. I tried to get rid of it by repeating that i'm not in the <> anymore and i'm sleeping in my own comfortable bed with a suitcase full of money under it and i don't have to be scared of bandits or mutants.
I tried hard to fall and sleep but i succseed only when i toke the weapon in my hands.
I woke up as my left hand started hurting from the weapon's weight. I had awful nightmare like i became source of emission. It was like the emission was appearing in me and then getting out killing everything around. Brrr.... damn strange dream.
I barley opend my eyes. For a second i thought that i'm going crazy or that i've got somekind of virus and now i'm going slowly crazy.
Strange that the wallpaper started getting off the wall and everything was burnt in the room. Everything was falling a part in the room and the glass was broken.
"What the fuck!?" What happend here while i was sleeping!"
And suddenly i understood , emission! Everything was caused by emission! But how? It was just a dream!Or maybe it...wasn't?!
I had no idea what was going on. But i had to do something. If the <> breaked out and now is behind the perimiter i've to do something! I can't let this shit grow! Maybe somehow i brought with my self somekind of unknown artifact?
I fastly got up. In the chaos i found my stuff and threw everything in the bath. Let them lay there. Untill...untill what?
"Untill i clear this shit out!" answered i to my self.I fastly made up a list of S.E.C 's wich are in this city , scientists know for sure what's going on and how to fight with it. But suddenly i just forgot about this idea as none were studing the <>. There should be special collages for it wich would be protected by military and ofcourse i can't belive local people.
Wait! Military! Definatly! They have got connection with <> so they will be working fastly if the won't throw me in the asylum first of all.
"No way!" I toke a piace of burnt wallpaper. Everything is real so they could come and see it their selves. "Yeah let them come and see it with their own eyes!"
I've to do everything as fast as possible! World doesn't need another <> ! If it's my fault then i've to fix it... Strange voice in my head was wispering that i've to hurry. The strange alert i had yesterday appeared again and it was even more powerful. I ran to the cupboard and pulled the door , it remained in my hand "Fuck it!" i threw it out of the window and searched thrue the clothes. I found some clothes wich were not destroyed by emission and put it on.
With the speed of bullet i breached the door with my leg and ran out of the house. I ran to the tunnel.
"Hey there brother!" Said one of the guys i scare yesterday.
I thought "Damn not now!"
Four guy blocked me.
"Not now guys! I'm not joking !" I said stopping a few meters away from them , i made a few steps back and looked for the best way to retreat. If i wouldn't be in a sucha crappy situation i would make the guys follow me in somekind of small tunnel or house where they couldn't get behind me or attack at the same time. But i wanted to just run away. It's not shame to run away atleast to my mind. People who run away from a fight are not only covard their brain might just work good enough to understand that it's not right time to fight. It was almost impossible for me to take down all of them and an addition is that each second i waste on these idiots might cause death of thousands!
"We are also not" Said the guy who grabbed me yesterday. He had a weapon in his hand. For a moment i thought that i was realy one. But even if it was scaring pistol for sure it was modified for low .cal bullets otherway he wouldn't show off with it.
Damn bitch! At this range you don't even have to aim. Unfortunatly i was already in the middle of the tunnel wich means i couldn't run out and take cover...
"No..." I wispered.
Hot air appeared under the men. I tried to hold off the thing wich was coming out of me. I tried to warn those idiots that their lifes are in danger but sudden pain started twisting from me and i barley opend my mouth but couldn't say anything.
The same feeling as i had in the dream m when <>...
"What? No...?" Said the armed guy walking closer and extending his hand with pistol aiming my head.
"Brave only with a gun huh? And without it already shi-..."
Huge fire blast appeared in the tunnel. Screams of the males was barley heared as the sound of working <>. I've never seen so powerful anomaly even in the zone. Guys burned down in a second. No hair remained on my face and skin was hurting but i was still standing but i kept looking at the awful dead bodys.
Fire lines extinguished as fastly as appeared revealing the dead bodys with still burning clothes. Dark ashes were flying in the air.
As soon as shock dissapeared i got closer to the wall and fell down and in a few seconds everything came out of me.
I dried my face with sleeve and leaned on the warm wall.
My brain denied everything "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE THAT IT HAPPEND!"
"No,no,no... it's just a dream...it's madness, madness!"
And then a few shots happend and it made me shiver , the bullets in the pistol exploded.
The pistol belonged to the guy who's burnt budy was rather close to me.
It made me totally wake up "Zone got here! And it's somehow realited to me! I need to find specialists, someone who could help to clean this mess!"
I got up fastly , legs didn't want to listen to me so i hit the wall with my shoulder by mistake. Not to fall i supported myself with wall , i tried not to look at corpses , i made a few stpes...
Dry sound of electricty went thrue my ears and sudden pain striked my body , i screamed but succseed to stay on my feet. Whole way to the road was blocked by freshly born <> i barley blived my eyes , <> didn't let me thrue! And most disgusting is that with new electrical anomalys wich aren't deadly but really painful she made me run back to the hood.
I got scared , this time really scared! Because at the beginning it didn't look so scary , but now... now i was running. I ran in the house and in the falt because i totally forgot that <> is living there since yesterday night already , i turned around to run out when i saw the burnt walls but on the stairway i met <> only thing that warned me was a silent air explosion.
"What! What the fuck do you want from me!?" I heared that my voice is as silent as mouse's screaming. Also i didn't get the answer. I had terrible headache and i my soul was giving up already.
In the past i've heared how crazy souls were screaming that "She! The Zone is alive!" But nobody ever prooved it! And now... Here is the proof! Whole flat is living <> . From craper to the living room "Fuck this bitch!"
I walked to the bed and fell on the bed. Awful pain made me take embrion position and again something started growing inside of me , someting vild , scary and unfriendly.

[Dark Angel]

<>

Invisible but at the same time unstadable bright , it was blinding. Emission was getting out of each mm of my body and it covered not only my flat , it covered whole street.
With some kind of inner vision i saw how grass and leafs started drying falling off the trees , paints started falling off the buildings , glass started exploding , metal became rusty...and people... people started dying... behind the tables , on the beds , in the arm-chairs , people were falling on the road or on the floor in their flats , offices ,houses ... some got killed by emission in their cars and the cars crashed in random objects and while the cars were moving they all got rusty.
Men , Women , Old people , children , <> had no mercy.
When emission ended i was just laying on the bed as i was out of energy and couldn't even move my fingers. In 3 hours i started barley moving.
Now i understood why <> gave me that good stuff. She knew that as soon as i get enough money i'll leave her. She needed conductor who could lead her behind the perimiter , so she chose me. Fuck you , bitch!
I tried to reach for my weapon but sudden <> burnt my hands. And as i got burnt already similar pain started appearing inside of me again , my muscles started twisting causing uncontrolled body moving.
I started screaming only when <> ignited the mattress wich was under me. And suddenly it was like someone grabbed my throat , screaming stopped. From the inner pressure i had feeling that my eyes are gonna explode. And then i felt how new emission started growing inside of me. The emission was really powerful and deadly , it was much stronger than the previous ones. Emission was pressing it self in the form of a sphere and started taking my life energy loding it self. As soon as emission was born huge wall of fire covered me. With fire came the pain...

<>

Unstoppable . I can't stand this pain anymore. Whole my life is pain. I didn't want it and didn't wait for it. Pain came it self and as a huge snake it swallowed me. Pain covered my mind but even pain has it's limit. When the pain hits the limit it's like i'm stepping over an invisible barrier and after it my mind is clean again and i start thinking again... and it means that i'm still alive. Usually it happends after each emission. At sucha momments i can observe <>.
New <>. The one wich have already taken another beautiful green area.
I see everything , from dry grass 100Km away from me up to the ice wich covers lakes of Canada , from yellow jungles of Amazone pool up to oasis in Sahara. I see how new kinds of mutants and Anomalys appear where ever the <> steps. And i see you people , the ones who survived and who became S.T.A.L.K.E.RS. I try to yell something to you , i try to send a message in your head using my mind and it seems that i succseed as people who i choose , well their faces usually become scared and spooky. The preassure makes the shake their eyebrows , they start listening. Suddenly i cut transmission as the pain comes back...

Someimtes i fight with her my self. Sometimes i even win and step over thar invisible barrier, and then again i start transmiting my messages. Maybe someone will be able to recive it , feel it and understand it.



Come! I'm waiting for you! Please, find me! Before the <> takes over the world , untill oceans fight , untill we still have some hope.
Find me...please...

[Dark Angel]

Sorry thanks to the new limit had to cut it into 2 posts


Also there are some mistakes in my translation because of the damn fast typing so don't bitch.


Also this chapter is the most boring one i would say... There are alot of cool thing in the books mostly i like the new anomalies , secrets , myths , factions and mutants :V

[Steel]

Surley they will translate it at some point? it will be a good read, i love reading Warhammer 40k Books, but there ya go!

[Nevrox]

Sucks that they are Russian only and I will look into that book SK. Also, sorry about the title, I meant to change it last night but I had to get off because it was like midnight and I had school in the morning.

Thanks for posting that Dark Angel, would be awesome if a publisher translated them...

[Dark Angel]

Well i'm translating the books slowly.... But you know i've alot of thing to do IRL.

**Looks at her to do list**
1. Shopping
2. Party
3. Rest
4. Rest
5. Shopping
6. Party
7. Alco
8. Alco
9. **Censure**
10. Free
11. Free
12. Free
13. Free
14. Free
15. Free
16. Free
17. Free
18. Free
19. Free
20. SRP


You see i'm a busy person!

[Steel]

I WILL PAY YOU.

[Dark Angel]

How much :3 ?

[Steel]

Plenty. Thats all you need to know. That is of course if i can stop spending my wages on useless crap.

[Silver Knight]

Angel, ill probably make a website page for this, don't bother posting it here. Just translate and put it into notepad, and give it to me.

[Bl★ck Star]

THE 1 BOOK CAME OUT IN GERMANY TODAY IN A STALKER EXTRA EDITION WITH THE GAME A BIG FAT HANDBOOK AND THE 1 STALKER BOOK IN GERMAN OLOLOLOLOLOL IAM GOING TO BUY IT (but it acctualy costs 49€ and i just bought DoWII today -.-)

[Silver Knight]

To be honest, it's nice to read foreign literature once it's converted, but it's really never the same, the wording changes how it should really be, so jokes, and general understanding, may be different, but the story is more or less the same.

Also, congratulations Cloud, you just wasted money on a pointless overhyped shitty game which is for the inexperienced 12 year olds which just happen to play it.

DOWII and DOW are amateur at best, but what can i say, THQ is involved, they tend to mess up and rush every game they touch, like STALKER: SOC, if they didn't rush that, there would have been 2 times more content in the game...

[Steel]

Thats a very good point...

[Bl★ck Star]

i acctualy like DoW2 i played it at a friend and i think its really cool

[RayDark]

Yeah, Silver. That's your opinion and this is his.

No need to fuck-over because you think THQ rushed their games.

[Steel]

DOW2 isnt bad... neither are the company of heroes games.

[Dark Angel]

Angel, ill probably make a website page for this, don't bother posting it here. Just translate and put it into notepad, and give it to me.

Then you will tell everyone that you did it and i'll get no credits at all for whole my hard work :V

[Steel]

I told you... ILL PAY YOU

[RayDark]

Ill pay you in blowjobs... Uh... Wait.



You can pay ME in blowjobs. :)

[Lucidius]

They did rush SoC but, let's have a brief history lesson about how old Stalker really is.

The game was first announced in November 2001 and had its release date, originally in 2003, pushed back several times.

Originally, STALKER was going to be one of the first games to FULLY UTILIZE DX 9.

In 2006, the game came 9th in Wired's Vaporware '06 award.

Anyways, nuff of my schpiel