In the last scene of this novel, a long-haired “pretty boy” walks into a quarry shouting “happiness, free, for everyone!” before his sudden death. An apartment dinner scene in this novel is punctuated by the reanimated corpse of the protagonist’s father struggling to take a drink. In this novel, the protagonist’s daughter slowly loses her language ability due to a mutation that gives her golden fur. After “hell slime” destroys the legs of “Vulture” Burbridge, the protagonist of this novel learns the way to a wish-granting Golden Sphere (-5[1])that he obtains by sacrificing (10[1])Burbridge’s (10[1])son (10[1])to the “grinder.” This novel begins with the Institute scientist Kirill and Red Schuhart (“shoo-hart”) entering a wasteland near Harmont (10[2])to search for alien artifacts. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the film Stalker (10[2]-5[1])adapts (10[1])the (10[2])setting (10[1])of the Zone (10[3])from what novel by the (-5[1])Strugatsky brothers? ■END■ (0[6])