Lem (was Re: Extropian Principles reading list)

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:35:25 +0000


At 12:44 PM 10/21/97 +0200, Anders wrote of Lem:
>Frank Prengel <prengel@physik.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>> P.S.: I don't know if all of his work has been translated into
>> English; I hope so.
>
>Yes, it has been translated.

Some of it brilliantly (by Michael Kandel), some of it woefully. Alas, to
the best of my knowledge, the SUMMA *hasn't* been Englished, which is a
terrible shame. Neither has the full text of his study of sf, although
fragments have appeared (it would now be very dated, of course, and was
based on a tremendously biased and random selection of material available
to Lem in Poland thirty-odd years ago).

Damien Broderick