The Truth by Stanislaw Lem

You can read the newly translated story here. The very fifth post of this blog, made in 2009 was about the death of Stanislaw Lem, my favorite science fiction author.

I've always felt bitter more people didn't recognize his work. I'm not sure why he's suddenly getting all this publicity. I've seen three articles discussing his legacy the last several weeks and now we're getting a newly translated short story.

This story is a standard trope in Lem's fiction but I think the punchline is spoiled by the synopsis found at the top of the page. If you trust me when I say its good and have the patience to read a 9000 word short story, skip over the synopsis, scroll past the picture, and just read it from the beginning (starting with "Here I sit").

posted by na on September 21, 2021 20:53