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Reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem (to prepare for watching the Tarkovsky film!) It’s so good, and so different from The Futurological Congress. Any other Lem fans out there?

The Futurological Congress was so funny, maybe I was expecting some of that humor in Solaris, too, but it’s so fantastically different. I always think about the part in TFC where he wakes up in a literal jam.

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Love that! Thank you, I definitely will 🙏

Yes! My pseudonym (gigamesh) comes from a Lem book! Its a chapter in A Perfect Vacuum. If you like the stuff that leans more into absurdist humor, check out Peace On Earth.

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Oh man I misread. I thought it turned you *on* to sf! Care to share what was a turn off? Without spoilers pls not yet done lol

Read it as a teenager and was like wtf. It turned me off science fiction for ages

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Have you read Tarkovsky’s “Sculpting in Time”? He talks about his philosophy on the relationship between literature and cinema. I can totally see why an author would be at odds with how he views its differences (which to Tarkovsky are necessary ones)

I have watched the film. It was a good movie but I have read that the author didn't like the drastic changes done to the original plot. The book sounds more interesting tbh. I'll add it to my reading list.

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Yeah, I dig Lem. Have you read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub or Cyberiad?

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22468831429&searchurl=kn%3Dsolaris%2Bstanislaw%2Blem%26sortby%3D19&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image2 wow

It's out of print but Lem has a collection of fake reviews of fake books that has a lot of interesting soviet humor

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It's out of print but Lem has a collection of fake reviews of fake books that has a lot of interesting soviet humor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem%27s_fictitious_criticism_of_nonexistent_books

Read Solaris earlier this year and enjoyed it. Haven't read any other Lem.