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I would not put him in the same league as Lem. Or Banks or Reynolds, for that matter.

• The_Colonel 3y ago
  I would rate Lem higher than those, but not sure if it's a different league.
  • idlewords 3y ago
    It's not even the same sport.
• sockaddr 3y ago
  I would
  • johngossman 3y ago
    Tchaikovsky is uneven, as are Banks and Reynolds. Lem is just different. He’s rarely a hard sci-fi writer and some of his books are barely sci-fi. More like Voltaire (Invincible is sci-fi)
    • gambiting 3y ago
      In fact quite a lot of Lem's writing is not sci-fi at all, period. Hospital of Transfiguration is an absolutely mandatory read for any fan of Lem, even though it will leave you depressed for a week afterwards. And memoirs found in a bathtub is just a masterpiece of absurdity, it has a very good English audiobook actually if anyone wants to try.