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Lem's most prescient book is an accurate portrait of this century... published in 1961! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars https://en.wikipedi
by narag 3y ago
Lem's most prescient book is an accurate portrait of this century... published in 1961!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars
But I tend to prefer his more humorous writings, like Cyberiada or the Star Diaries.
- gambiting 3y agoI really enjoy that book but it always makes me....sad? Nostalgic? I always feel bad for the protagonist, more so than for protagonists in his other stories. I should re-read this one I think.
- varjag 3y agoThe are remarkably a few Tichy stories which which are quite creepy. Including a couple of brain-in-a-jar tales.
- narag 3y agoDisturbing bits and comedy he always mixed. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is pessimistic, kafkaesque but somehow funny too. A friend that knew I'm a fan, showed me a few paragraphs from one of those stories you mention, without telling me the origin. I said they were too dark and bitter for my tastes, before realizing I had read that before. I first read the Diaries when I was 12 (and 13 the second book) when I wasn't so judgemental, just took what I was offered.