The most truthful and at the same time the most unusual book about the Chernobyl zone. The real world without embellishment is sensationally more interesting than the imagined one. The authors, who constantly live in Chernobyl and study the nature of the phenomena occurring there, reveal to us the facets of the anomalous zone from a completely new angle. Who lives there and how, what grows and how it dies, why stalkers come and why they are divided into gamblers and breadwinners. True stories of the closed zone, walks through real locations of the STALKER game, real LOST PLACES and details of the accident from the most authoritative modern authors on the Chernobyl theme. This is the real REAL world of the most GAME zone in Russia!