Eighth Tower publisher, Raffaele Pezzella, has announced that the next Dark Fiction volume will salute director Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979, science-fiction epic, Stalker, which was adapted by Akady and Boris Strugatsky from their acclaimed novel, Roadside Picnic.
The Samuel Beckett-esque Stalker, like Tarkovsky's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, is open to interpretation. I'm sticking to that tradition, but instead of events taking place in a parallel-future Russia (where an insinuated Soviet Union maintains control), my story will occur in an extrapolated Trenton, NJ (though an undisclosed spot in a neighboring region will distinguish the fable's start).
Local history will color my contribution, with a daring escape (and a vehement attempt to uncover the truth) dominating much of it. Additional details will rise later down the dystopic line.
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