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Re:The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019) by petrochenkov on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @05:23PM (#30704276)
It's kind of strange to me to see Futurological Congress and e.g. Fiasco from the other responses being advised as standalone novels (maybe it has something to do with the history of Lem's English translations).

I'd instead advice to read the whole Ijon Tichy cycle starting from Star Diaries (which are pretty similar to Cyberiad in style), and the whole Pilot Pirx cycle starting from the Pirx Stories.

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Re:The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem (2019) by npsimons on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:10PM (#30712714)
> I'd instead advice to read the whole Ijon Tichy cycle starting from Star Diaries

That might help, I should probably do that. I started with "Cyberiad", then got into Lem's other works just sort of at random. It doesn't really feel like the Tichy series is grouped together in the way say the Heechee saga or a lot of other "serial" or "extended universe" works are.

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