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Is it any good? If so what version/translation should I read? Also where could I find a pdf of said version/translation?
Libgen.
It's quite interesting, one of the best sf novels.
>>8268782
yes/no idea/google
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>>8268782
>>8268797
Which translation did you read?
>>8268851
Fuck if I know.
interesting on an intellectual level but a crap story from a human point of view
the movies are better if you want emotion; they take the ideas and make them real stories
>>8268815
>not watching the tarkovsky version
i get that this is /lit/ and not a film board but please don't be this much of a pleb
>>8268874
>from a human point of view
yes i read all my stories from the point of view of a frog
the western canon gets 0 stars from me but the wind in the willows was some good shit
>>8268881
>tarkovsky
film school pseud shit
>>8268881
It clearly says a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
>>8268881
That's a book.
>>8268782
It's not my favorite Lem, he has the tendency to turn his novels into thinly veiled essays at some point and it's very apparent here. The whole contact as a religion discussion really appealed to me though and it can be genuinely spooky at points. Made me crave a Silent Hill type horror game based on it.
Still better than most of the American science fiction canon for sure.
I can't tell you which translation you should read because mine was German.
>>8268885
some science-fiction writers are literally robots, so i needed to clarify. STEM folk don't always have souls
>>8268782
Only read the EBook updated translation version. I have no idea where you can get a pdf from.
Don't read any paper back english editions they are all garbage.
>>8268952
What is your favourite Lem then?
>>8269004
The Invincible and Star Diaries for serious and humorous respectively. I haven't read all of his books though.
>>8268888
You have no idea.
