Monday, March 27, 2006

Stanislaw Lem 1921-2006

Russia and the world have lost one of the most creative sci-fi writers of this century, Stanislaw Lem. He's best known for his novel Solaris and for the fact that Philip K. Dick accused him of not existing, but The Futurological Congress was clearly the Matrix blueprint.
I'm not a big sci-fi fan - I've only read a few of Lem's Pirx the Pilot stories plus his collection of book reviews (of books that don't exist), A Perfect Vacuum, but that book alone boosts him into the literary stratosphere.

In completely unrelated news: We all know that Charlie Sheen's areas of expertise are a) appearing in C movies, and b) getting rid of crabs. Yet his idea that something's fishy about 9/11 is shared by many people who aren't coked-out sitcom stars. I think it bears examination. (I still won't cut him any slack for Hot Shots Part Deux, though!)

3 comments:

tshsmom said...

I AM a big sci-fi fan and I've never heard of this guy. I'd better check him out.
Charlie Sheen is delusional. His theory doesn't explain the people that were on the planes! Is the gov't just making up names for these citizens AND their surviving families?

The Zombieslayer said...

C movies? There's something worse than B movies?

As for Charlie, the only thing I have to say about him is he looks like his Dad.

S.M. Elliott said...

Heck, I think there are Z movies! I was being generous!

I don't really know Charlie Sheen's whole theory, I just know he doubts the official story.