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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including [[Smug Snake]] Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[Grey Goo|"witches jelly"]] out from Zone. {{spoiler|In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.}}
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: "Alien" here means "mostly incompatible with Terran life". Where to start? There's a heavy fog that turns your bones into jelly. A spider-web that gives you a heart attack hours after you've touched it. Spots where [[Gravity Sucks|gravity is hundredfolds stronger than normal]] (in other words, step in and go splat on the floor)... A "meat grinder" that... um... well, guess... The Zone is littered with the bodies of scavengers that serve as marks for where you shouldn't go.
* [[ET Gave Us Wi
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Some things in the Zone will kill people. Some things won't. One stalker loses the bones in his legs and becomes unable to walk, but survives because Red spends a day dragging him out of the Zone. When his son goes into the Zone, he brings along a pistol with one bullet in it, just in case.
* [[Forbidden Zone]]
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* [[Ruins of the Modern Age]]
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: Captain Quarterblood.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Kirill Panov and Arthur Burbridge, the two young, nice and most idealistic characters in the book, die in the same chapters where they are introduced.}}
* [[Twenty Minutes in The Future]]: Apart from a few technological advances, the setting seems largely congruent with the time when the novel was written. Though from today's perspective, it possibly could be more adequately classified as an [[Alternate History]] setting.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Anyone who was near a Zone at the time of the Visitation became this. It takes twenty years for the authorities to notice because it's not immediately obvious. One case study is a barber who left the city, but his clients had a 90% mortality rate over the course of a year due to various freak accidents. At the beginning of the book they are paying people to leave the Zone so that they can build a military perimeter around it, but that policy is soon reversed.
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