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by nicopappl 1278 days ago
I recommend Stanisław Lem's Cyberiad. The English translation has amazing prose and it is hilarious. I can't recommend anything else :) I like Charles Stross, good sci-fi with a satirical strike, but he's not as good with words as the authors you mention.
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Just picked it up. I'm surprised it reads so well as a translation! I'd have thought it pretty hard to translate wordplay well.