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An old but excellent book (written in the 1920s in Soviet Russia) is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin I also like Solaris though I suppose everyone has heard of that one
by insane_dreamer 2y ago
An old but excellent book (written in the 1920s in Soviet Russia) is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
I also like Solaris though I suppose everyone has heard of that one.
- robterrell 2y agoRe-reading Stanislaw Lem (i.e. The Cyberiad) in the era of LLMs has been a joy for me.
- cydmax 2y agoI‘ll chime in and recommend The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem. Not really hard sci fi, but very entertaining and fun to read!
- cmpalmer52 2y agoI read Solaris years ago and was unimpressed. The philosophy and science’ish elements were poorly described and it felt like a lit-fic attempt at trippy SF by someone ignorant of the genre. Then, a year or two ago, I read about how bad the early translations were, so I picked up a new English translation. Wow, what a difference. Now it’s one of my favorites.
- Keysh 2y agoDo you recall the name of the good translator?