The Case for Stanislaw Lem
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The Case for Stanislaw Lem
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Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#2I got a 404, so I did a quick Google search. This seems to be the article in question —> https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-stanislaw-lem-one-of...
I am excited to read it. I just finished reading Solaris for the first time, and it was mind-changing. I highly recommend it to any of you who haven’t read it.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#3I got a 404, so I did a quick Google search. This seems to be the article in question —> https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-stanislaw-lem-one-of... I am excited to read it. I just finished reading Solaris for the first time, and it was mind-changing. I highly recommend it to any of you who haven’t read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)
I also received the 404, thanks for sending the fixed link.
I started on Stanislaw Lem by reading The Futurological Congress (the movie is also fairly decent) and I really enjoyed it. I still need to read Solaris.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#4I got a 404, so I did a quick Google search. This seems to be the article in question —> https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-stanislaw-lem-one-of... I am excited to read it. I just finished reading Solaris for the first time, and it was mind-changing. I highly recommend it to any of you who haven’t read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)
Changed to that from https://onezero.medium.com/p/94aee43db04f. Thanks!
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#5I got a 404, so I did a quick Google search. This seems to be the article in question —> https://onezero.medium.com/the-case-for-stanislaw-lem-one-of... I am excited to read it. I just finished reading Solaris for the first time, and it was mind-changing. I highly recommend it to any of you who haven’t read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)
> I just finished reading Solaris for the first time, and it was mind-changing.
I have heard Solaris refered to as being mind-changing before. What was it about Solaris that impacted you so much?
After first hearing about Solaris decades ago, I finally got around to reading it upon learning of his passing. I must have missed something because it didn't strike me as living up to its reputation.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#6Stanislaw Lem is one of my favorite authors. "His Masters Voice" is one of my favorite books.
"Cyberiad" and "Mortal Engines" are also great books but much more playful and probably geared towards a younger audience, even if some of the subject matter is philosophically deep.
I think Stanislaw Lem kind of suffered from the same fate as Gibson's work in that there have been a few attempts at making them into movies but they haven't ever really took off or translated well.
I do wish his books were in the public domain, though.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#7Stanislaw Lem is one of my favorite authors. "His Masters Voice" is one of my favorite books. "Cyberiad" and "Mortal Engines" are also great books but much more playful and probably geared towards a younger audience, even if some of the subject matter is philosophically deep. I think Stanislaw Lem kind of suffered from the same fate as Gibson's work in that there have been a few attempts at making them into movies bu…
Tarkovskis Solaris is really good.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#8Stanislaw Lem is one of my favorite authors. "His Masters Voice" is one of my favorite books. "Cyberiad" and "Mortal Engines" are also great books but much more playful and probably geared towards a younger audience, even if some of the subject matter is philosophically deep. I think Stanislaw Lem kind of suffered from the same fate as Gibson's work in that there have been a few attempts at making them into movies bu…
The Soderbergh movie is pretty good. Not quite the same story as the book but I attribute that to the difficulty of making a planet a character in a movie.
Every realization of the Solaris story demands patience and thought from its audience, and I expect that's the root of the problem with its lack of popularity.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#9I grew up with Lem's works as a kid, teenager and young adult in West Germany in the 80's. Lem spoke German so he was involved with the translations and there wasn't anything he wrote that didn't get translated to German.
Not least because East Germany, together with Poland, was part of the Soviet block.
I read 'Eden' when I was in 3rd grade -- my dad left it laying on the table in our living room. It had the world 'alien' as part of the subtitle so I was hooked.
When my dad found out, about a year later, that I read and grokked the book he read my three years younger brother and me the 'The Invincible' as a bedtime story over many nights. My poor little brother. :)
I think it was 'Eden' that thus set the standard for my expectations of sci-fi (aka: hard sci-fi).
It was probably also the reason that I am forever disappointed by the pale vision of blockbuster and series sci-fi. Or most sci-fi in general, written or filmed.
And I often have deja-vus when I read contemporary sci-fi because of my exposure to Lem. When I e.g. read Watt's 'Blindsight' I couldn't help comparing it to Lem's 'Fiasko'.
I never understood the public's focus on 'Solaris' and even less how both movies missed the core theme of the book so badly.
And lastly: there is unfortunately a substantial body of shorter works from Lem that has still not been translated to English.
Re: The Case for Stanislaw Lem
#10Stanislaw Lem is one of my favorite authors. "His Masters Voice" is one of my favorite books. "Cyberiad" and "Mortal Engines" are also great books but much more playful and probably geared towards a younger audience, even if some of the subject matter is philosophically deep. I think Stanislaw Lem kind of suffered from the same fate as Gibson's work in that there have been a few attempts at making them into movies bu…
"His Master's Voice" is a gem. I found it really difficult to get through the first time, as a teenager. Part of that may be a function of the translation. I later read it a second time after spending significant amounts of time in academia, and loved it for its cynical but largely accurate portrayal of human behaviour.
I also really enjoyed "The Futurological Congress" (which is of Lem's easier-to-digest stories in my opinion) and "Fiasco".