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>>pmoria+(OP)
The writing style seems to be unnecessarily complex, and, in my mind, dilutes and obscures the message of this piece.

>>cgoeck+Zg
I think this is because it's an awkward translation from Polish. It's funny because PKD's own prose was very clear and unpretentious.

>>the_af+Ih
Yeah. This is littered with stuff like:

"This is, be it said forthwith, apposite as a castigation of historiographic diagnostics..."

I don't know Polish, but it seems suspect that all of "forthwith," "apposite," "castigation," "historiographic," and "diagnostics" have direct 1:1 equivalents, leading me to believe that we're getting more of the translator's voice than Lem's.

See also the (controversial?) retranslation of Solaris a few years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/15/first-direct-t...