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I am a huge fan of Lem and it is good to see these books are getting new translations and editions. I also like the cool 50s sci fi covers. But something is re
by hristov 6y ago
I am a huge fan of Lem and it is good to see these books are getting new translations and editions. I also like the cool 50s sci fi covers.
But something is really annoying me -- why did they spell the name of the author in Polish? You have to decide whether the book is in English or Polish and if you have an English book you should have an English cover, otherwise you are just going to confuse your customers. If you print the largest writing on the cover in Polish a lot of people looking at the cover will quite understandably think the entire book is in Polish.
I know the Polish has a cool looking L and all but that is not sufficient to cause confusion.
Also the guy deserves to have his name correctly pronounced by people who read him, as much as practical for people with a foreign language, and the Polish W is pronounced as a V. Thus, for an English speaker it is better to just write Stanislav.