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RIP Stanslaw Lem
IIUC he had a complication during his cardiosurgery...
RIP - a life truly worth living
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IIUC he had a complication during his cardiosurgery...
RIP - a life truly worth living
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...I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
He single-handedly rekindled my interest in sf, after years of not reading the stuff.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Rest in peace.
Of his works, I read only "Solaris". It was very difficult and dense, I remember not being able to read it when I was tired.Comment
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RIP
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RIP
A true master of sci-fi"I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
"You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:Comment
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RIP.
Solaris is a work of genius that truly has very few matches in sci-fi. Lem would have been one of the greatest sci-fi authors even had he never written anything else.Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
Contact: solver-at-weplayciv-dot-com
I can kill you whenever I please... but not today. - The Cigarette Smoking ManComment
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Of to the unknown. Bon Voyage.I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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Damn.
If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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I have read all of his books I have gotten my hands on (quite a few). For me, he is the greatest Sci-Fi writer ever, a man with both humor and immense depth.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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R.I.P.
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RIP
Not many of the old guard of polish literature remain."I realise I hold the key to freedom,
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
Middle East!Comment
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RIP.
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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RIP, You will be remembered.
-- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
-- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Comment
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