For day 14 of Blogtober, we look at a book that is technically science fiction, but it is also horrific in a number of ways! This science fiction classic describes an area of the planet where aliens made a pit-stop — a “roadside picnic” — and left all sort of unfathomable technology behind as trash. Now humans sneak into these forbidden zones to scrounge anything they can sell, at the risk of their bodies and their lives.

This book is sooooo worth reading; there really isn’t anything else like it!