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>>anarba+(OP)
Fair warning, this story is about 9,000 words. But it's so rich and weird and dazzling. It's among my favorite Lem stories — although i admit i hadn't read anything of his until we (MIT Press, where i work) started reissuing his books last year, so i'm by no means an expert on him. Anyway, there was a lot of interest in an excerpt from Lem's memoir I submitted here a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25533405), so thought i'd share this as well.

>>anarba+Z
The first novel I read of him was "The Invincible", recommended here. It was great, but it didn't prepare me at all for the second book someone recommended me, "The Futurological Congress". It's like two different styles.

>>ASalaz+Vb1
Two Lems for the price of one! What could be better? One serious and the other basically telling SF folk stories, mocking other SF and inventing possible worlds, like Vonnegut did with his Kilgore Trout. Also ‘The Cyberiad’ with Trurl and Klapaucius is somewhat similar to the Ijon Tichy cycle.