Stanislaw Lem RIP

that said when i read it i had already fallen asleep in front of both versions of the movie. i think i also managed to fall asleep whilst reading the book, my edition of which had george clooney on the cover, by the way. i think the book was in my friend m.'s room when he set his house on fire. huh.

i have recently read memoirs found in a bathtub. it had some notable features.

The bio piece on him in the New Yorker is good. Checked the library and they have a weird smattering of his books (in electronic form, anyway), no Solaris or His Master's Voice. Anyone read The Cyberiad, Peace on Earth, the Star Diaries, More Tales of Pirx the Pilot, or A Perfect Vacuum (fake book reviews)?

Yeah, I would recommend The Cyberiad and the Star Diaries as good entry points from that list. Both are essentially short story collections with vaguely overarching plots and the Star Diaries, in particular, has a couple of stories that I think about all the time.

I've read the Cyberiad, a decent collection of sarcastic, cynical, and silly fables concerning two inventors and their inventions, nothing like Solaris or His Master's Voice.

Never heard of that guy who wrote the NYer thing before, but probably would read something else by him.

A Perfect Vacuum is the best thing of his I've read outside of Solaris and His Master's Voice, especially the 'review' of Gruppenführer Louis XVI about ex-Nazis cosplaying the 18th century French aristocracy in a South American jungle.

The Cyberiad is a fun read - "a decent collection of sarcastic, cynical, and silly fables concerning two inventors and their inventions" is a good summary from ledge.

Reposting this from the Jonathan Lethem thread (via the pinefox):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bx7umZ8aRI