The Zone
Inspirations:
What do you think about when I say "stalker"? Someone who follows people around, spying on them, or someone who survives by selling and collecting dangerous materials from alien crash sites and/or radioactive exclution zones? If you picked the last one, you know what this is about. If not, then let me know
This world is not completely original on my part. It is heavily inspired by different media I like to categorize under the vague title of "Stalker-media". Stalker-media is one of my special interests.
Stalker-media I have consumed:
"Roadside Picnic" Novel by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
"Stalker" Film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
"S.T.A.L.K.E.R" Series of first-person shooter games developed by GSC Game World. (I own all, currently playing through the first one.)
"Metro 2033" Book series written mostly by Dimitry Glukhovksy. A video game series of the same name and world was developed by 4A Games, I have not played any Metro games though.
But, you can get into this world even though you are not a fan of any stalker-media. It might be a bit harder to digest but whatever, I belive in you :)