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floated aka Brad Root is a 27.24 year old boy, has been a member since July 9, 2005, has scored 176 submissions, giving an average score of 2.15, helping 4 designs get printed.
I love the novel.

I LOST MY BLOODY ATM CARD. So, the $6 this shirt would cost me after street team credits... I can't even pay. This blows.

Someone buy me this shirt?

FRICKINAWESOME
   FRICKINAWESOME on Sep 03 '07 at 2:40pm
I'm probably stupid to the max on this one...but what novel is this based off of? Is it called roadside picnic?
Laslor
Laslor on Sep 03 '07 at 4:02pm
It's not based on any novel. It's based on the looks of the deserted chernobyl region in ucraine, and the way nature overgrows the ruins of the human leftovers there.



The top image is the chernobyl reactor, and the big wheel is also a real site in the deserted town of pripyat near chernobyl .



The wolve comes from the nickname "Land of the Wolves" for the Region, and the Soldier looks like in the PC-Game Stalker, which is also based on chernobyl.



Here you'll find more about that Region:

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html
Laslor
Laslor on Sep 03 '07 at 4:14pm
Seems i was partly wrong: there is a russian novel called Roadside Picnic.

But anyway, it is also basing on the real chernobyl site, and Stalker is basing on both.
classicoke
   classicoke on Sep 03 '07 at 6:41pm
yep.. thats basically the design right there. sidenot: roadside picnic pre-dates the reactor 4 incident.
Lifestruck
Lifestruck on Sep 04 '07 at 6:27am
Yep, there is a fantastic novel by the Strugatskiy brothers called Roadside Picnic. I am VERY VERY imressed that there is a T-shirt on Threadless based on the book. Also, I'd like to point out that the game Stalker has clearly borrowed ideas from the book, simply moving the setting from a fictional area in America (as in the book) to the area surrounding Chernobyl. The word "stalker" is originally used by the authors of the book to denote men who illegaly enter the "Zone" to steal alien objects left there after the alien landing. Anyway, if you can, read the book!
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