#stanislaw lem

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no może lem faktycznie był ahead of his time

[lascitasdelashoras]

Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris (1972)

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

-- Stanislaw Lem

(Charquemont, France)

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Modern Sci-Fi Aesthetics

Raygun Gothic/Atompunk

Used Future/Cassette Futurism

Hard Sci-Fi/NASApunk

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''Memoirs of A Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy'' by Stanislaw Lem, 1982 Cover and interior art drawn by Lem himself

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In Stanisław Lem's "Fables for robots" there's that one story, "Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon", and it goes more less like this: on one planet's moon appeared a dragon that noone could defeat, so the Computer suggested creating another dragon, a superdragon, more powerful than the dragon that lives on the moon right now. The superdragon will defeat the current dragon, and there will be no more dragon! But, a monarch of the planet asked, what will become of the superdragon? How will they then get rid of him? And the Computer's answer was, that they will have to create a super-superdragon, that will defeat the superdragon, and so on.

I remembered this, when I read how Alina needs all three amplifiers to become stronger than the Darkling in order to defeat him, and how Zoya needs to claim the Dragon's power in order to defeat Elizaveta.

Bardugo's solution for dealing with tyrant is creating a new, super one

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Oscar Chichoni, cover art for Solaris, 2006

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“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.” -Stanisław Lem, Solaris