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It's a stretch to call some of these "predictions", but .. yes, some of them were reasonably good predictions. I can wholeheartedly recommend anything Lem wrot
by beagle3 8y ago
It's a stretch to call some of these "predictions", but .. yes, some of them were reasonably good predictions.
I can wholeheartedly recommend anything Lem wrote; Don't be discouraged if you didn't like the movie adaptations - these books are probably impossible to do justice to in movie form.
- varjag 8y agoHis earliest works weren't quite on par with the later. He said just as much himself.
- jagger11 8y agoOne of the greatest sources of those Lem's "predictions" is his Summa Technologiae, which was recently translated into English - https://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=0816675767 https://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=... It's from the 60s and contains strikingly good predictions on AI, SETI, Virtual Realities, nanotechnology, multiple universes, the future of our civilization etc.etc. Also, if you're a fan of R.Kurzweil and others predicting the technological singularity - reading Golem XIV (from 80s.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV - is a must.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoWhat would your top Lem book recommendation be?
- abecedarius 8y agoCyberiad is really fun.
- beagle3 8y agoMine would be “the futurologist convention” (or however it was translated to English) - it is rather short, but I found it an extremely fun read, with just enough text and story to support the idea and no fluff. YMMV.
- varjag 8y agoAll "serious" stories in Tichy series are worth checking out. The humorous ones are good too, just unsure how much is going to be lost in English translation.