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 The Perfect Vacuum - Stanislaw Lem
Newest Review: ... do it. The book is an anthology of around 15 reviews on books that have not actually been written. Lem makes up titles and ... more  ... authors for these so called books and then gives a summary and opinion of them, often in such excruciating detail that I was left wondering whether the book might have been better if Lem had actually written the stories in the first place.
In the first story, Lem has cleverly written a review which is actually about A Perfect Vacuum and which fooled a number of the members of our group who can’t have been paying attention to the title. In this review Lem isn’t particularly complimentary about his work and he states tha...more |
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The Perfect Vacuum - Stanislaw Lem: A Perfect Disaster (879 words)
by - written on 15/07/07 (Very useful, 90 readings)
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Several days ago I met with my book group to discuss our latest read, A Perfect Vacuum which was published by Polish author Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) in 1971 and translated into English by Michael Kandel. I’d never heard of Lem when this book was picked but have since discovered that he is the most sold Science Fiction writer for works originally written in a non-English language. His best known work is that of ‘Solaris’ which helped make Lem the most successful Polish author ever and today his work has been translated into 42 languages. Now, I don’t read Science Fiction. I simply don’t generally like it and I couldn’t even finish The Lord of the ... Read the complete review
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