Reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem (to prepare for watching the Tarkovsky film!) It’s so good, and so different from The Futurological Congress. Any other Lem fans out there?
The Futurological Congress was so funny, maybe I was expecting some of that humor in Solaris, too, but it’s so fantastically different. I always think about the part in TFC where he wakes up in a literal jam.
I dig roadside too, I’ve not yet seen or read Solaris
It's out of print but Lem has a collection of fake reviews of fake books that has a lot of interesting soviet humor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem%27s_fictitious_criticism_of_nonexistent_books
Yeah, I dig Lem. Have you read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub or Cyberiad?
I have watched the film. It was a good movie but I have read that the author didn't like the drastic changes done to the original plot. The book sounds more interesting tbh. I'll add it to my reading list.
Read Solaris earlier this year and enjoyed it. Haven't read any other Lem.
Read it as a teenager and was like wtf. It turned me off science fiction for ages
Yes! My pseudonym (gigamesh) comes from a Lem book! Its a chapter in A Perfect Vacuum. If you like the stuff that leans more into absurdist humor, check out Peace On Earth.