> I'd instead advice to read the whole Ijon Tichy cycle starting from Star Diaries That might help, I should probably do that. I started with "Cyberiad", then

> I'd instead advice to read the whole Ijon Tichy cycle starting from Star Diaries That might help, I should probably do that. I started with "Cyberiad", then got into Lem's other works just sort of at random. It doesn't really feel like the Tichy series is grouped together in the way say the Heechee saga or a lot of other "serial" or "extended universe" works are.