If 'The Right Stuff' was a dark soviet comedy it'd be 'Omon Ra'

[jlw]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/11/if-the-right-stuff-was-a-d.html

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[Papasan]

absurdist adventure in the Soviet space program.

[Boundegar]

I’m not saying it was Tralfamadorians…

[sme]

Someone’s messing with me, right? https://xkcd.com/1015/

[Mongrove]

Mmm. So it goes.

[hecep]

I’ll be looking that one up.

Another great sci-fi absurdist novel is “Bill, The Galactic Hero”, by Harry Harrison.

[Brainspore]

The distinction between Russian Comedies and Russian Tragedies always seemed to be kind of arbitrary to me.

[Mawile_303]

Damn i was wishing it was a film, have to add it to my long list of things to read

[Papasan]

Hi Ho!

[Michael_R_Smith]

My vote is for The Starcrossed by Ben Bova.

[FFabian]

On a related note:

No mention of Yuri’s Night on BB?

[anon62122146]

Buddha’s Little Finger is an amazing Buddhist exegesis.

My favorite of his writings is a short story called Hermit and Six-Toes.