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Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Today's ISFDB weirdness Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 20:56:00 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <slrnv5hpv0.19v9.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <v39v8f$3ov$1@reader1.panix.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 20:56:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="42986"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Bytes: 1508 Lines: 19 On 2024-05-30, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote: > ISFDB has a "disowned by its author" tag. The books thus tagged are: > > Astronauci by Stanislaw Lem That was Lem's first novel. I think it was the last ever book I read in translation. There was some nonsense on the first few pages where I couldn't figure out if it was from a naive young Lem or from a science-illiterate translator--an issue that has been plaguing the genre, because translators tend to come from a humanities background. I don't think the novel was THAT bad, and it already had the theme of aliens being too alien for our understanding that Lem would return to again and again, but yes, it wasn't up to the level of Lem's later output. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de