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Stanislaw Lem is best science fiction writer out there

Polish first speaker reporting in
hard to say, but probably something by this nigga right here

Yes yes we all know about Philip Kindred Dick..
But do you know about Stanislaw Lem?

>>19382999
why did he think lem was a spy?
>>19383183
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>>19383646
>a scanner darkly
a thousand times this

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>>18692773
Parents read to me as a child but they couldn't read every night so I learned how to read by myself.

In school my interest in books rose when I wasn't allowed to learn italian/spanish/french but had to take classes in the native language here (I'm a 2nd gen. foreigner and they didn't think I spoke their language for some reason...). When they noticed I spoke their language they told me I could do whatever I wanted (as long as it was productive) in their class so I just read a lot of books.

After school I was a bit tired of books until I met my first gf who introduced me to Lolita, which is when I began reading more 'adult' books.

I guess I've always enjoyed the feelings and emotions certain stories and characters evoke in me in a way that any other medium rarely, if ever, does.

him and orzeszkowa

>>18175798
By the way, Lem wrote an essay about Borges, or at least Borges appeared in it. Seems he got some works of Borges smuggled over the Iron Curtain.

Have you guys read any Lem books, apart from Solaris and The Cyberiad? If so, what did you think of them?

Do you like Stanislaw Lem, the only person comparably as good as Philip K Dick?

>>13762760
Not him, but it's a fantastically inventive collection of 'essays'/recensions. I read it in a very decent german translation (as far as I can tell), that makes an effort to preserve Lem's philosophical musings; which are the proper bones of the essay, in most cases. Here is someone who is severely underrated as an author first, and even more so as a philosopher.

>>13740962
Can you identify an in- or decreasing trend in post/discussion/prose / general quality as you sift through the archives (in retrochronological order, I presume?) I can't wrap my head around as to why you would commit to such a soul-crushing endeavor, but if your research has yielded any result so far, and you are furthermore inclined to sharing your findings, I will commend your effort.

>>13160289
Stanislaw Lem was pretty close, died in 2006. He studied medicine, wrote novels, philosophical treatises and essays and was as broad a polymath as one can expect in this day and age.

Lem is one of the best fiction writers ever, prove me wrong.