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Okay... what have I just read? Felt like Franz Kafka and Robert Sheckley met and went on a bender. In a lovely pub located deep in a forest. And on the way home, they got lost and somehow wrote this story on tree barks 🤓

And I very much enjoyed the trip, it's satirical look on bureaucracy, following party lines and one's place in a bigger machinery, and the way the tone got weirder as the story moved forward.

#satire #sciencefiction #weird

"Von so weit oben sah der Wald aus wie ein riesengroßer, mürber Schwamm oder wie gefleckter dicker Schaum."

#firstline #strugatzki #sciencefiction #scifi

Strange, surreal and full of symbolism, The Snail On the Slope, was a fun ride through two narratives that meditate on the meaning and purpose of society and how we perceive its future.