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Harri Liljeroos  Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 5898 Credit: 85,281,665 RAC: 126 
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I have now finished Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon. 
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Harri Liljeroos Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 5898 Credit: 85,281,665 RAC: 126
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Just finished Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age.
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Scrooge McDuck  Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1960 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 
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Just finished Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age.I’m just curious to know if this English translation of an 1960s Lem novel also contained an introductory contextualization of the plot within a communist worldview… just on the first couple of pages. I know this, for example, from the East German translation of „Der Unbesiegbare" („The Invincible“). After that, the remaining pages contained a magnificent science fiction story without propaganda... as if the state censors in the (then) People's Republic of Poland had to be flattered so that the book could be published. |
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Harri Liljeroos Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 5898 Credit: 85,281,665 RAC: 126
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Just finished Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age.I’m just curious to know if this English translation of an 1960s Lem novel also contained an introductory contextualization of the plot within a communist worldview… just on the first couple of pages. I actually read a Finnish translation of the book, it has been translated from the English version and published in 1986. The Finnish version didn't contain that kind of introductory.
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Harri Liljeroos Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 5898 Credit: 85,281,665 RAC: 126
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Just finished Frederik Pohl - The Merchants' War.
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 Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 38505 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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I'm not getting much reading time in these days, but I'm finally on the last volume of Hugh Cook's "Chronicles of an Age of Darkness". Cheers. |
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