Birthday Party - The Second Coming

[wiseheart]

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, I've apparently missed it. Thanks.

Lem is a genius. One of the greatest sci-fi writers of the 20th century. It's very interesting to watch how he develops away from the obligatory happy-go-to-the-future socialist world view to darker, more complex themes. His last works are great, but also absolutely depressing.

There is a series of short stories, though, describing the adventures of two robotic engineers, Trurl and Klapantius, which is absolutely hilarious. All stoires are written from the POV of robots, and humans, if mentioned at all, are described as ugly, disgusting and treacherous creatures. Kyberiada is the title, if I'm not mistaken, although I'm not sure about the English spelling.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really interesting set of short stories! I will have to see about trying to get hold of them.