[jagger11]

> Looking back to my youth in Eastern Germany, in which I devoured each and every Lem book, I will never fathom how his novel "Wizja lokalna" (1982) was able to make it past the censors of this ...

Wizja Lokalna (eng: Observation on the Spot, ger: Der Lokaltermin) is my favorite Lem's book. Unfortunately it was never translated to English AFAIK.

Personal anecdote:

I'm learning currently German (b/c living in a German-speaking country), and I chose "Der Lokaltermin" as my book of choice to work on with my teacher. After a year we're on the 9th page. (no worries, book is just small part of our lessons)

The reason for that is that the beginning of the book is full of utterly useless in everyday life words and sentences :) For example, I know how to say in German: "Two heavily-sweating midgets, after eating oily pasta, kidnapped me from underground parking because they suspected I'm the Princess of Pedimonte, then they asked Vatican for ransom money"

[greatquux]

I've been looking for a translation of this so I can finally read all the Prix stories. You've got customers out there!