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[return to "The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (1964)"]
1. woleiu+1m[view] [source] 2021-09-20 18:33:01
>>anarba+(OP)
Lem is best known for Solaris, of which there are two film adaptations. imho the book is better than both films, and the first film is better than the second.
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2. dkarl+wr[view] [source] 2021-09-20 19:05:37
>>woleiu+1m
He is also known among programmers for The Cyberiad, which is available in an amazing English translation by Michael Kandel. The Cyberiad is a collection of tales about two Constructor robots who travel together and try to outdo each other at creating bizarre and often disastrous inventions to solve problems on different planets.

Edit: Here is a snippet in which Klaupacius challenges Trurl's latest invention, the electronic bard, to compose "a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics," and gets a response: https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/cyberiad.html

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