pickFor a small book, the world building is immaculate. This is definitely a work you must experience even if sci-if isn‘t otherwise for you.
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pickFor a small book, the world building is immaculate. This is definitely a work you must experience even if sci-if isn‘t otherwise for you.
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 223.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
Day 1 - #SetinOuterSpace #BiblioMaynia
#Solaris #Lem
I am not really a science fiction reader but I really did enjoy this story. The concept and the characters were fascinating. I read it in one sitting as it held my attention and I was curious to see how it would end. The writing has great imagery and is very thought provoking. I would recommend this book to those who enjoy science fiction or those who want to stretch beyond their normal genres.
Tomorrow is my day off and I've got some #leisure time. So that's what I'm planning to do. Reading is my only real hobby, everything else comes and goes. Books stay.
#letstraveljuly
"We don‘t need other worlds. We need mirrors. We don‘t know what to do with other worlds. One world is enough, even there we feel stifled. We desire to find our own idealized image; they‘re supposed to be globes, civilizations more perfect than ours; in other worlds we expect to find the image of our own primitive past."
Day 20 - #alien #quotsyfeb19 #1001bookstoread
I am not really a science fiction reader but I really did enjoy this story. The concept and the characters were fascinating. I read it in one sitting as it held my attention and I was curious to see how it would end. The writing has great imagery and is very thought provoking. I would recommend this book to those who enjoy science fiction or those who want to stretch beyond their normal genres.
panIt was a book I wanted to read for a really long time, but in the end I was dissapointed. It has a good plot, but the book has really long and drawn out passages where the author explains the science behind certain things that happen. These long passages failed to keep my attention, and I eventually started skipping them and only read the interesting parts. I managed to finish the book eventually though, but didn't realy enjoy it.
so-soRecommended by a German guy I've never met. Proper Sci-fi with long passages of pseudo scientific nonsense combined with a really intriguing plot and some well defined characters. Reminded me a lot of H.G. Wells. From a quick Google search I can see it's been translated and published a gazillion times, it is good stuff but you do need to be in the mood to read this.
#AugustWrapUp #AugustStats
So I didn't finish any of the books I planned to read this month 😂 I started 3 of them but finished none of them... oops.
These are the ones I finished this month and I caught up on some reviews as well, so it was a good month as things go.
My favourite was Solaris, and The Girl With All the Gifts and Skulduggery were rereads.
pickThis story is just 🤩🤩🤩
I don't really know how to review this book other than WOW! I love a deep philosophical plot, and I do love a heavy/dark story so this kind of ticked all my boxes.
Also just as a side note the translation from Polish was brilliant - the story flowed smoothly despite English not being it's original language 😊
#BackpackEurope
This is the book on my #SFFTBRChallenge that is the lowest rated on Goodreads. This particular translation has 3 stars (and only one rating). The most popular edition is rated 3.98 w/over 55k ratings, and other editions are higher. So it seems a bit odd to call it the lowest rated. 🤔 But I'm halfway through the book and I must say that a new Norwegian translation would be in order. I'll probably rate this 3 too, and I suspect it should be higher.
so-soOverall a good book, just has a tendency to go into detail with science (?) Theories that I did not quite understand.
1️⃣ @TricksyTails Igrec and Madame Blanchette say hi!
2️⃣ Android for me, iPhone for the rest of the family
3️⃣ No nuts, if at all possible
4️⃣ I'm reading short stories for the Jacques Brossard Prize. Most are in Revue Solaris, an excellent SFF magazine in French, that I recommend without reservation (named for the tagged book, but separate: http://www.revue-solaris.com/)
5️⃣ Fencing (yes, not kidding)
@MinDea #humpdaypost
…Must I go on living here then, among the objects we both had touched, in the air she had breathed? In the name of what? In the hope of her return? I hoped for nothing. And yet I live in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the face that the time of cruel miracles was not past.
“Those are not facts, Kelvin. They are not even propositions. They are theories. You could say that it has taken account of desires locked into secret recesses of our brains. Perhaps it was sending us…presents.”
“Presents! My God!” I shook with a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
Even when man had explored every corner of the cosmos, and established relations with other civilizations founded by creatures similar to ourselves, Solaris would remain an eternal challenge.
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies beyond doorways that he himself has sealed.
I put my arms around her and held her with all my strength. Nothing mattered to me except her; everything else was meaningless.
pickSolaris was a different reading experience for me as I watched both movies before reading the book. The book and films are about a small group of scientists studying Solaris while on a space station above the planet.
I liked this book. The narration was excellent, he gave each of the four main characters their own distinct voice and delivery, and there was never any question who was talking. The story is slow-paced, but quite a mind bender.
Nit pick: the stars in Orion are not grouped together in space, they just appear that way from earth; Orion wouldn't appear as it does to us earthlings as it would to a planet in another section of our galaxy, like Solaris was. So, the Orion constellation isn't a location per se. Lem should've maybe used the Orion Nebula or one of the stars, like Rigel or Betelgeuse, if he wanted to reference a specific celestial location familiar to humans.
Written seven years after science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard invented his religion, Scientology, which he translated to mean "the science of knowledge".
My next audiobook. I need some escapism after listening to Sherman Alexie for twelve hours.
pan"Sense becomes obscure of only a few finite sectors of existence are considered " (Zhuang-gi)
pickFinally read this classic novel!! So good! Definitely understand why it's a sci to classic! Loved it. And there's one of my new bookmarks that I used while reading.
#bookmail yay so excited this package finally got here! I've been meaning to read Solaris for years so I'll probably check that one out first. I loved the Jeeves show with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie so it's about time I bought the books. And The paper menagerie has been recommended by so many people that I can't wait to check out this story collection! All in all a nice haul!
We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos...We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds.
I own so much fantasy and science fiction that I tag all my bookshelves as #outofthisworld
So i decided for a pic of one part of my bookshelves.
My favoutites on this one are from Lem and I recently bought the sequel to The Reality Disfunction. I heard that the later book im the Expanse series are really bad, has anyone read them?
pickSolaris, the living ocean, tests the boundaries of human understanding, science and philosophy. A love story, a mystery, a treatise on the philosophy of science, its similarity to theology, and the limits of knowledge, love and God. A unique novel that stands the test of time, from one of the most imaginative sci-fi writers of all time. 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Currently reading. It is a library copy published in 1970. The cover just screams early seventies...
These are my books on my bedroom, soon to be read. My other books are on shelves - this is the only stack.
Solaris and The Mirror Cracked are library books, they will come first after I am done with Moby Dick and Homegoing - not pictured because they are e-books.
#bookstacks #augustphotochallenge #tbr #bookstack
Prepare yourself for cerebral academic dissertations.🎓 And I loved every page of it!🙌 #MyKindofSciFi
We think of ourselves as Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are seeking only Man. We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
