The Future According to Stanisław Lem

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The Future According to Stanisław Lem

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The Future According to Stanisław Lem

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This goal animates his [Stanisław Lem's\ kaleidoscopic body of work—a collection so diverse that Philip K. Dick once wrote to the FBI that Lem wasn’t a real person but a committee masterminded by the Communist Party.
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thanks, on the reading list.
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Typhoon, are you a huge Lem fan?
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Typhoon, are you a huge Lem fan?
I certainly am.

I think that The Cyberiad is one of the greatest and most perceptive works of 20th century fiction.
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Typhoon wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Typhoon, are you a huge Lem fan?
I certainly am.

I think that The Cyberiad is one of the greatest and most perceptive works of 20th century fiction.
It is on my reading list.
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