![]() ![]() Many of them have never been translated to English before. This collection gathers stories from different periods of Lem’s life, from 1956 to 1996. In our times full of wilful denial and escapist pleasure, though, I contend that Lem’s passionate critique is something sorely needed. He’s also a very pessimistic writer, at least when it comes to humans and human cognitive and moral abilities – and reading Lem is a bit like gazing into a very unflattering mirror, one from Andersen’s tale The Snow Queen. His brain really seems to have been wired differently, perceiving correlations and consequences and possible outcomes that not many others – or none – had seen. Stanisław Lem is one of my absolutely favorite SF authors, as you probably already know from here and here. ![]()
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