A Billion Years Before The End Of The World is neither humorous nor it can be dumbed down and framed as "a critique of the state suppressing unwanted research".

A Billion Years Before The End Of The World is neither humorous nor it can be dumbed down and framed as "a critique of the state suppressing unwanted research". It's one of their later and more complex works. A critique of the state messing with research is "the tale of Troika", and it's also a weird, weak-ish book (it also comes in a pair, not unlike Janus Poluektovich).