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.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @08:36AM (1 child)
I got my copy back in fourth grade, about '75.
I was the kid in the back of the classroom with this book tucked inside a history book 'cause I had already read That cover-to-cover...twice.
Picked out something new every time I read it. I'm not sure my folks would have approved had they known what I was actually reading. They considered sci-fi at best mostly harmless, at worst, a waste of time. Wrong on both accounts.
I didn't pick out quite all the Aussie-isms till I wandered a few months in NZ and then Sydney. Those infectious speech patterns took me years to fully shake out... and come back all too easy.
I remember Mike not waking hitting young-me pretty hard.
I was an impressionable little kid, and this got me diving deep into sci-fi, good and bad, to this day. Re-reading some E.E.'Doc' Smith stuff now.
But more than anything else I was reading at the time, it got me thinking about what kind of person I wanted to grow into being.
Mannie was a far better role model than what was available.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday February 13 2019, @10:59PM
I was affected by the loss of Mike as well. It wasn't just that Mike had become people and now was gone, but rather that Manny missed his friend. Heinlein managed to communicate that it hurt Manny that Mike wasn't there anymore, and while Manny wasn't lonely he certainly missed his friend.
This sig for rent.