Stanislaw Lem: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Technocracy Social Engineering)

Stanislaw Lems Memoirs found in a Bathtub has got to be the best polish scifi of the middle century. Its like The Castle by Kafka but with technology, not crummy old villages. And its got confused people wandering around, trying to do stuff to the best of there ability, and failing miserably. But hey, thats life.. or at least, it soon will be. Once our hidden masters assert their reason, we will be able to break free. The writing is dense and paranoid. A lotta people say they are confused by the book, but thats ridiculous. its all about confusion. It a central tenet of good science fiction. All those hard-sf readers are like structuralist freaks, pedantic technocrats with circuits for brains. Go read your heinlein, puny creatures. Leave me with my bathwater.

- boop [Jan 6 2007 10:31 AM]