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by matt_o 3577 days ago
S. Lem - The Tales of Pirx the Pilot.

I was all of 12 or so when I read it and I was expecting the usual sci-fi hero-space-disaster-monsters-ingenuity-victory thing.

About a third way in I realized it wasn't sci-fi, but a book about life. I few years later I realized that was my first encounter with philosophy.