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SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 13 2019, @01:22AM   
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takyon writes:

March: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis Taylor

Discuss The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein in the comments below.

Fiasco was translated into English in 1988 by Michael Kandel:

Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural disparity rather than spatial distance. The failure to communicate with an alien civilization is the main theme of the book.

Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho! • Foundation • The Three-Body Problem • Snow Crash

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• Re:It's well written and... Re:It's well written and... (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @02:35PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @02:35PM (#800593)

  FWIW, the story you are thinking of is “Gentlemen, Be Seated”, which is collected in The Green Hills of Earth.

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• Re:It's well written and... (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday February 13 2019, @02:48PM

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Wednesday February 13 2019, @02:48PM (#800599) Homepage Journal

  Thanks!

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  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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