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>>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.

>>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

>>dkarl+wr
What is really amazing about this (and about the whole English translation by Kandel, but the poetry is particularly amazing) is that to me, as a native English speaker, this seems like it was written originally in English--not written originally in Polish and then translated into English.

>>pdonis+ww
It seems to me that the English poem is indeed Kandel's original. There are very few similarities to the Polish version, other than the general theme. I found Lem's poem here: http://www.matematyka.wroc.pl/book/stanislaw-lem-zakochany-c...

>>MatmaR+F51
> It seems to me that the English poem is indeed Kandel's original.

Hm, interesting. Still impressive since he had to write the poem.