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I have read Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky siblings, but not the tagged book. I have to say that this might very well have the most terrifying title I have heard in quite awhile.

Science-fiction satire that uses the absurdity of Soviet life for inspiration. Briliant.

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"Weird, Russian literatue" you say...??

“Like all science, our work deals with human happiness.”

(picture of my doggo for bonus points)

It took me *2 weeks* to read this 240-page Soviet Era novel! A SFF novel published in 1965, the absurdist sensibility, Russian naming conventions, and suspect translation issues made this a challenging read; but if you work your way through it carefully, it's actually a clever and entertaining story!

Release Date: October 01, 2017

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Starting this one today: A Science Fiction Classic written in 1965, it's about a science research lab in the USSR that looks into magic!

(Pictured: Detail from cover of English-language print edition)