stanislaw lem

haha

this one guy told me it turns out their language is meaningless

the kid/d ends up back at the beginning, and the moon is george harrison

brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to 2
Howth Castle and Environs

eh?

a comprehensibility key:

1) Riddley Walker is by Russell Hoban, not Stanislaw Lem
2) the kid/d ends up back at the beginning, and the moon is george harrison is Delaney
3) brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs is Joyce

A Perfect Vacuum
is a thing I like

I read "the Star Diaries" about a bajillion years ago. Can't remember a thing about it.

nabisco you should check out the companion book "Imaginary Magnitude"

Best thread ever.

"One of these unwritten books, I could title: 'Stupidity as the driving force of history.' In fact, if you look at many of the tragic events of the past, it turns out that at the beginning of their usual stupidity lay. When she is dozing in an ordinary man in the street, she is usually not noticed. But when it appears in people who decide the destinies of peoples, it always tragically affects the course of history."

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i read solaris this year. the reportedly bad french -> english translation is actually p good

so did i, in february. i really liked it, appreciated it as a companion piece to the imo superior movie, similar to 2001 (book & movie)

idk if i’d call either movie superior, they’re just different

read the shorts in the penguin modern set and loved them. need to get some more.

hi fellow stanislaw lem readers. several years ago, i did a mix inspired by his existential romance return from the stars. here's the tracklist:
1) Brian Eno — 'A Clearing' (1982)
2) Human League — 'The Path of Least Resistance' (1979)
3) Red Sparowes — 'A Message of Avarice Rained Down and Carried Us Away to False Dreams of Endless Riches' (2006)
4) Cocteau Twins — 'Lazy Calm' (1986)
5) The Durutti Column — 'Falling' (2001)
6) The Reegs — 'The Nasty Side' (1993)
7) DJ Shadow — 'Blood on the Motorway' (2002)
8) Slowdive — 'Changes' (1994)
9) Sam Prekop — 'November September' (2010)
10) Eberhard Weber — 'T on a White Horse' (1977)
11) Kraftwerk — 'Ananas Symphonie' (1975)
12) Tangerine Dream — 'Invisible Limits' (1976)
13) Harmonia — 'Almost' (1976)
14) William Ackerman — 'The Search for the Turtle's Navel' (1977)
15) Trembling Blue Stars — 'Branches' (2005)
16) Brian Eno — 'Always Returning' (1983)
17) Sigur Rós — 'Varðeldur' (2012)
18) David Sylvian — 'Darkest Dreaming' (1999)

most of it is sourced from vinyl.

Now that I've read 10 or so Lems I think I'm good for awhile. Fiasco was good even though it felt like a few short stories frankensteined into a novel, and it even provided an end to Pirx (even though it's deliberately ambiguous which character is actually Pirx).

Most recently I read The Investigation, and while it's vibey, and putting his late-period epistemological themes into the form of a detective novel is a good concept, it's not all that fun to read? It has some moments, but is no Memoirs Found in a Bathtub or The Futurological Congress.

what are the keepers? I love solaris and hmv, the cyberiad is fun I guess, I've read one other collection, not sure which.

Top 5:

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
The Futurological Congress
Peace on Earth
Fiasco (not perfect but the most fun out of his late period fiction that I've read, incl. His Master's Voice and The Investigation)
Solaris

Also really like the Cyberiad and the Star Diaries, and some of the Pirx stuff, but it all kind of runs together in my memory.

cool, thanks. looks like there's more of those available as ebooks and from the library than I thought.

That was a big thing that kept me going through them, the library had a number of them, and then a bunch were $2 or $3 on kindle (my one guilty use of Amazon).