>>25627096
Interesting idea. War crime prose. Typical science fiction slop.

>>25627127
You dont get to call Solaris slop without explaining yourself sir.

>>25627143
Have you ever read volume three while anticipating the space comrades by not drinking?

Schizo thread.

>>25627127
The war crime is on the publisher, Solaris was badly translated into french in the 60’s then from french into english.
Worst of all is that major publishers refuse to back financially a new translation and just keep printing the old one.
The prose is way better in polish.

>>25628870
Odd since Cyberiad and Fables for Robots have good translations Lem himself approved.

I read this in english and thought it was great. sorry euros are mad or whatever

MONSTROUSAPHRODITE

>>25627127
>M-M-MUH.... PROOOOOOOOSEEEE!!!!!
Die.

>>25629128
Plotfag seethe

>the cold indifference of the alien behemoth is enough to drive a man to madness!
hey guys! i, the alien behemoth, made a replica of one of your young! not my best work. eager for any feedback.
>we poor scientists on this all but forgotten outpost spend every day searching for even the faintest sign that it cares about humans.
check it out, i think i've honed in my fine details in making human replicas. here are some personalized ones.
>if only there were even we could in any way leave an impression on the godlike creature... i'm going to go down to the surface to mope.
hello! good of you to join me. i am so obviously interested in humans. i will extend to you my greeting that i made up for when i meet humans, which i have been using since day one.

>>25627096
Beautiful shit. I read this twice and was baffled. Also look at tarkovsky's film. Absolute beauty. Lem is the only sci-fi writer worth reading

the bit where the alien consciousness tries to understand humanity by creating a gigantic homonculus and operating every single muscle and joint in algorithmic order was some top tier horror

>>25627127
I thought it was OK. Whatever English translation I read, that is.