Carnal Reason

Polish author science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem died Monday in his home city, Krakow. He was 84 years old.

I preferred his short stories to his novels. My favorite Lem story, The New Cosmogony, is found in A Perfect Vacuum. The story presents a startling theory concerning the universal silence, the total absence of signals indicating intelligent extra-terrestrial life.

The man had a powerful imagination.

Posted on March 28th, 2006 by pwyll
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