Check the second-hand stores and specialty stores, such as Maryelizabeth's
"Mysterious Galaxy," or ask your librarians if they can arrange an
interlibrary loan. If you'd prefer a German edition, you might have to
order them online unless you're within range of a store like Boston's
Schoenhof's. (I think they're in Boston--they also have served as a
distributor in the US to other stores.) Can you read Polish? That would
probably give you an edge, if you were going after a foreign edition!
-----Original Message-----
From: Pia Ries-McLaughlin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 2:03 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT
Subject: Lem
Hello,
I want do ask regarding Lem. In Germany he was easy available,
but I haven't seen any books from him in the shelves here.
I like his books, Solaris for sure, but also the ones with the starship
pilot
(forgot his name). I read most of his stuff in libraries before I had
money to buy them - now I have the money but don't find them.
Pia
> This is of course an allusion to Stanlislaw Lem's masterpiece, _Solaris_
> (1961), which deserves to be more widely read outside of the SF scholarly
> circles where it is well known. Perhaps a slightly larger number of people
> know the 1972 film by Andrei Tarkovsky has its own appeal.
>
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