Re:Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World
by przefur on Monday September 26, 2022 @11:06AM
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I've had similar thoughts regarding the roadside picnic, the older I am, the more depressing it feels.
I would highly recommend another Strugatskys book - 'Monday starts on Saturday', it is pure humor, as opposed to other works of theirs. It's about a soviet scientist that joins government's study on magic. Bureaucracy never been funnier, of course outside of 'The Twelve Tasks of Asterix', 1976.
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Re:Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World
by golergka on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:01PM
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> It's about a soviet scientist
It's actually about a soviet software engineer, and A LOT of the things in this book is still very relevant to our trade today.
Re:Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World
by monista on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:24PM
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Rather programmer than software engineer, I think that that time, his work was mainly just calculate something, not to write software products and such.
Incidentally, the spirit of the book fits both communistic, and hacker's views: work overtime, because you like it, not for an extra reward.