Comments on: Lem’s Opera

By: Randee Preyor

Randee Preyor — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:31:44 +0000

Who is the best contemporary opera singer, in your idea?

By: Barts

Barts — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:03:34 +0000

I would also like to take this opportunity to point out to other great Slavic sci-fi author, regrettably unknown to Anglosaxon world: Igor Mozheyko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir_Bulychev . I would love to see him translated, especially “City above” and “Savages”, stories about human populations separated from the rest of humanity and slowly degrading.

By: Barts

Barts — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:01:39 +0000

While the author of this blog has probably already received an email with unauthorized English translation (with regards from fans from Poland), others might also want to check it, hence I allow myself to share a link to it here:

http://www.ultramaryna.pl/mkk/?p=1639

By: Sebastian Meyer

Sebastian Meyer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:45:03 +0000

I am lucky in that I am a native German peaker, so I have been reading a lot of Lem’s works, most of which probably never made it into English.

The irony is that it wasn’t translated into English because he was “Russian” author (Polish, actually. But I doubt that distinction would have helped), now he is heralded for his criticism of the regime.

Either way, he is an excellent writer of Hard SciFi as well as character studies of what likely would happen if people are locked in metal tubes in space for a little too long.

By: Blake

Blake — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:19:09 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this. Based on the previous comments, I’m not overly optimistic that we will ever see this in print, at least in English. It does sound intriguing.

By: Ken Houghton

Ken Houghton — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:12:11 +0000

Whoever has the good sense to hire Michael Kandel to translate it?