Last month I decided to reread my Lem collection. Started Solaris yesterday. (I’ve read it three or four times before.)

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is one of my favorite books ever. It’s Lem’s sci-fi retelling of Kafka’s The Castle.

  • Deebster@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I read plenty of hard sci-fi already,so I’d probably go for other half of his writing to start. I love Douglas Adams, so if it’s good enough for him it’s good enough for me 👍

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      1 year ago

      The story with the improbability generator is in the short story collection “The Cyberiad”.

      Adams said something to the effect of: I’m certainly aware of that story now, but I wasn’t when I wrote HHGTTG, it was a coincidence.