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Sep 7th, 2003, 02:16 PM
You kids REALLY need to check out some Stanislaw Lem.
He is from Poland and is an internationally acclaimed master of
speculative science fantasy. His novel 'A Perfect Vacuum' opened
up brave new worlds for parody in this collection of perfect yet
imaginary reviews of nonexistent books.
Very very intelligent and mordantly satirical, Lem was honorarily
inducted into the American Sci-Fi Writers Association in the 1970s,
only to later be booted out once some of his earlier essays were
translated into English. These essays criticized the piss-poor
quality of most American Science Fiction and said that Phillip K. Dick
(one of my other favorite authors) was our only saving grace.
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