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TrackbackTrackback URL for this entry: http://candleboy.com/candleblog/trackback.php/2006032712161573 No trackback comments for this entry.R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
Authored by: JIMO on
Monday, March 27 2006 @ 06:42 PM
If you haven't read Solaris, people, do so forthwith. It's like sci-fi crack. I've been meaning to get ahold of something else by Lem. Maybe I'll try to get a copy of Eden. We'll all be adding to an inevitable, posthumous uptick in interest in his work, which is sure to benefit the vultures circling his carcass. Don't worry, Stannie, it happens to the best of 'em.
--- R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
Authored by: evening on
Monday, March 27 2006 @ 06:54 PM
I don't think I've ever read any of his stuff, but that wiki article has
convinced me I'm missing out. Off to add to my Amazon wishlist!! R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
Authored by: billsimmon on
Monday, March 27 2006 @ 07:20 PM
Interesting side not: Philip K. Dick was convinced that Lem was the head of a Communist conspiracy to kidnap him, and sent letters to the FBI to that effect.
R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
Authored by: DanZ on
Monday, March 27 2006 @ 07:54 PM
Amazing 'fun fact' Bill - that's really funny.
I was introduced to Lem (Solaris, The Cyberiad and the Ijon Tichy stories) at the same time I began reading Vonnegut and Sturgeon and thought I'd found heaven. The idea of incorporating scathing satire, wit and social commentary was new to me (somewhere in my early teens) and served notice that in that gloriously creative world of SF, aliens and rayguns were the bologna and miracle whip of the genre. JIMO's comment about Solaris being SF-crack-like is on the money. I read Solaris and Ballard's Crystal World the same summer and I swear it delayed my drug experiences by a year or two by acting as a literary proxy (hey, I get high on SF, man). I think both Solaris movies did a good job of slowing down the temp to match the pensive nature of the book, but Lem's narrative uses the reader's natural intellectual engagement as a brake whereas the films risk turning 'pensive' into 'boring'. R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
Authored by: MarkS on
Monday, March 27 2006 @ 09:04 PM
I thought that they retired the "Lunar Excursion Module" (LEM) a long time a go.
R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
Authored by: DanZ on
Tuesday, March 28 2006 @ 07:10 AM
You're thinking L.E.M., whose 2001 release of their album Reveal reminded the american listener just how inaccessible and culturally bankrupt their music could be.
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