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A review by girlofsteel377
Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem
5.0
I had seen "Solaris" waaay back in college I think. Beautiful, but slowly paced, and this was a time that I slept through bits of a lot of movies. So I was thinking that this series of "journeys" of Ijon Tichy written by the author of Solaris (which I haven't read) would be serious and dry.
I was right and wrong. The subject matter of spaceship navigator Tichy's voyages are plenty serious and related with the driest of humor. Many of the convolutions of time and space involve Tichy, full well knowing the consequences or potential result, punching his future or past self in the nose. His encounters with different societies explore the extremes of philosophy and religion, particularly Christianity.
His view of earth society as seen from an alien perspective is very funny though also pessimistic. What a foolish bunch we are: in shape, in cultural practices, in evolution, in government, in thought.
Kind of makes me want to read Douglas Adams or Vonnegut.
I was right and wrong. The subject matter of spaceship navigator Tichy's voyages are plenty serious and related with the driest of humor. Many of the convolutions of time and space involve Tichy, full well knowing the consequences or potential result, punching his future or past self in the nose. His encounters with different societies explore the extremes of philosophy and religion, particularly Christianity.
His view of earth society as seen from an alien perspective is very funny though also pessimistic. What a foolish bunch we are: in shape, in cultural practices, in evolution, in government, in thought.
Kind of makes me want to read Douglas Adams or Vonnegut.