mdg@ariel.UUCP (04/04/84)
Why has no one mentioned Pirx the Pilot, or More Tales of Pirx the Pilot. I laughed my way through both of them. I don't think that my background helped that much. ( I worked on Air Force Flight Simulators, and my wife is Russian emigrant.) Both books are really collections of short stories about the adventures and mis-adventures of a young space cadet. WITH NO MEMORABLE POLITICS! I may be wrong but apparently Lem and the Soviets don't always see eye to eye but Russians that like sci-fi love him. My wife tells me that some of his works preach true socialism, but that it matters as little to the story as Heinlein's communes to Time Enough For Love.