(but maybe, we should worry more about how the ocean would try to talk to us) It's a very disturbing read from the start, and you can feel the disquiet grip you into the pages immediately, but it's pretty dense and it can get dry. Know what this reminded me off a lot? "Moby Dick". It's those ess...
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub caught my eye simply for the novelty of the title and that bizarre cover. This book is difficult to sum up or even to rate as it truly has no discernible plot. Lest you dismiss it immediately because of this fact, let me assure you that there's much to recommend this title...
Now The Cyberiad completely got me back on board the Stanislaw Lem fan train. It was absolutely hysterical. This is a collection of short stories all about the adventures (or rather misadventures) of 2 (in)famous constructors as they make their way across the universe. (These journeys are called sal...
The premise is that a scientist is sent to Solaris (a planet with a space station) only to discover that the 3 inhabitants which he was meant to meet have been reduced to two. Our main character, Kris Kelvin, arrives hoping to crack the enigma of the alien ocean which comprises the whole of the plan...
The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem (another Swedish author!) came into my life due to an observant patron recognizing my Star Trek tattoo as the nerd alert that it is and recommending it to me. [Hallelujah!] The book is organized into short stories touted as the numbered voyages of Ijon Tichy. [A/N: ...
(Original Review, 1980)Some people’s complaint about "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is reminiscent of a friend's complaint about Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad: Tales for a Cybernetic Age". He thought it was just a series of disconnected tales that were "everything that sf is ridiculed as being", ...
“Every minute, 34.2 million men and women copulate. Only 5.7 percent of all intercourse results in fertilization, but the combined ejaculate, at a volume of forty-five thousand litters a minute, contains 1,990 billion (with deviations in the last decimal place) living spermatozoa. The same number of...
"Bajki robotów" to poznanie wszechświata, w którym żyją roboty, machiny. Poznane światy nie są zamieszkane przez ludzi, czy inne potrzebujące tlenu, jedzenia stworzenia. Odkrywanie go w poznanych bajkach było naprawdę oczarowujące. To już moja druga książka Lema, którą miałam przyjemność poznać. P...
Tak naprawdę nie miałam w planach czytać Lema. I nie czytałabym go, gdyby nie porządki. I nie, to nie oznacza, że nie chciało mi się sprzątać. ;) Po prostu przy porządkach świątecznych znalazłam tą książkę. Okazało się, że mama ją dostała od kogoś i ją przeczytała, a później położyła na półkę. I tak...
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