/lit/ - Literature

>>20676504
It's probably his best book. His short stories are what make him great. The fact that you have to ask this after having already bought the book is proof that this board is pure and utter shit.

Not my favorite book of all time, because I don't think I have one. But I'll mention 'The Star Diaries' by Stanislaw Lem, because his sci-fi short stories always make me laugh and feel warm and happy inside. They're top comfy.

>>16829436
>what the whole novel is about.
What's it about? Personally I wasn't that interested in getting to know more about upper-class life during that period, there's tons of books that deliver that well. What made P&P stand out to me was the phenomenal psychological portraits she painted, and the technical aspects of the book: when you know what happens at about the middle of the book it changes pace and tone dramatically.

>>16498259
It's about a tiny civilization (the 'Cheela') that live on a neutron star - and evolve (experience time) a million times faster than we do - and the humans who observe and eventually make contact with them during their rapid evolution. I like that it's based on real physics and the way it chooses to tackle interesting ideas.

With that said I also recommend anything by Stanislaw Lem, especially his more comical short stories (featuring either Ijon Tichy, Pirx or two robot engineers (as in robots who engineer, not engineers who robot), Klaupacious and Trurl) that are brilliant. Pic related.

>>15077262
>>15077352
I would also like to chime in and recommend more of Lem's work: The Star Diaries and Space Memoirs, both featuring Ijon Tichy as the main character and where every chapter is a new "journey" he undertakes.

>>13630445
I'd add "Dragon's Egg" and some of Stanislaw Lem's books there, like 'The Star Diaries', 'His master's voice' etc.

>>12904393
I also loved Dragon's Egg, got it recommended to me by a friend who is a physicist. It really does raise interesting points about time.

My favorite sci-fi book is probably The Star Diaries, or Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem. Not quite as hard as Dragon's Egg, but they're funny and you can clearly tell that it's a brilliant mind who wrote them.