Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Olena Bormashenko
"Stalkers" go exploring the waste zone after an alien invasion. They can get into trouble, but there is some value in those. The people keep going back, even though government officials offer them a chance to live elsewhere. At first I thought the book was talking about a nuclear disaster area, but I realized this was just something assume by those exploring the Chernobyl region. At the end, there is an afterward discussing the publication process during Soviet Russia. He does brush much of it off as not relevant anymore, but it is an interesting look into the history.
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