Perhaps this is the most important and interesting book of all the books about stalkers. The real story of the creation of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. intertwined here with a fascinating plot that combines fantasy, romance, and utopia. The author of the book met with a group of game developers, learned all the dark sides of the Chernobyl gaming trend and, having bought a pirated disc, opened a new, incredibly dangerous level, a completely wild quest, in which not only those who sit down at the computer can find themselves... On fan forums games, he found people who, like him, found themselves in the abyss of the real-unreal stalker world, where it is impossible to distinguish life from games and where the price of human life is much less than death. Suddenly it becomes clear that the expected apocalypse is nothing more than Stalker-2... But stop, about everything in order, in one breath - read the book.