Only one out of three Stalkers made it out alive. Stalkers could only work during the night since the Zone was observed during the day by soldiers and scientists. This was extremely dangerous work since one wrong move inside the Zone could be deadly. A frontier culture arose along the perimeter of the Zones, men known as "Stalkers" who risked their lives to illegally recover alien artifacts (called swag) from within the Zone for large profit. Governments feared that certain artifacts found inside the Zones could have enough power to cause a pandemic, permanently damage entire nations, or even destroy the planet. The laws of physics sporadically worked in the Zones.Īrmed guards surrounded each Zone with strict orders to arrest or kill anyone attempting to enter these volatile regions. The Visitation Zones are extremely deadly areas to all forms of life, containing space-time anomalies and random locations capable of killing anyone by fire, lightning, gravity, or other bizarre methods. Each Zone was the length of a few square miles in size, with abandoned buildings, railways, and cars some slowly decaying while others looking brand new. These 6 areas (containing a few populated towns) became infested with deadly phenomenons and littered with mysterious objects containing various properties, whose original purpose was incomprehensible by humans or so advanced that it bordered on the supernatural. Some areas of the Zones later became labeled by scientists as the "First Blind Quarter", "Plague Quarter", and "Second Blind Quarter" based on the effects the "visitation" had on the local population. Neither the Visitors themselves nor their means of arrival were ever seen, but the people who lived in these areas reported explosions or loud noises that blinded some and caused others to catch a type of plague. The book begins a decade after something alien (called Visitors by human scientists) very briefly (approximately 12-24 hours) landed at 6 different locations around the Earth (called Visitation Zones by human scientists).
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