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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@rysiek@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@aram Stanisław Lem is one of my favourite authors, and I feel he deserves way more attention these days – his short stories and novels are eerily relevant today I think.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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@rysiek@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@aram Stanisław Lem is one of my favourite authors, and I feel he deserves way more attention these days – his short stories and novels are eerily relevant today I think.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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@rysiek@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@aram Stanisław Lem is one of my favourite authors, and I feel he deserves way more attention these days – his short stories and novels are eerily relevant today I think.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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@nomdeb@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@rysiek @aram My all time favorite is, How the World was Saved. https://archive.org/details/howtheworldwassaved #StanislawLem

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How The World Was Saved : Stanisław Lem : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

“Take a good look at this world, how riddled it is with huge, gaping holes, how full of Nothingness, the Nothingness that fills the bottomless void between...
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Aram Sinnreich
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@aram@aoir.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@nomdeb @rysiek putting it in the queue

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@nomdeb@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@aram @rysiek It's a story from the book The Cyberiad. HIGHLY recommend. :)

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Aram Sinnreich
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@aram@aoir.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@rysiek thanks! Yeah I was a massive Lem fan in middle school, starting when I first discovered a paperback of "The Star Diaries" in my laundry room. But I hadn't read him for decades until these newly translated stories were published this year.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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@rysiek@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@aram

> Yeah I was a massive Lem fan in middle school

That tracks! I think Lem has a peculiar way of generating a certain type of approach to technology in a reader, one that centers the human experience and demands empathy, regardless of all the technological riff-raff.

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Aram Sinnreich
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@aram@aoir.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@rysiek 💯

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@rysiek@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@aram

> Yeah I was a massive Lem fan in middle school

That tracks! I think Lem has a peculiar way of generating a certain type of approach to technology in a reader, one that centers the human experience and demands empathy, regardless of all the technological riff-raff.

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