[lo_zamoyski]

If Lem was there, he would likely have agreed to dedicate his books to "the best third-rate scifi writers", given his generally critical view of American/Western scifi as naive, "commercial trash", and shallow entertainment.

[__rito__]

Not all Western sci-fi are gadget dangling spaceship displays. That might have appeared as the trend to Lem, and I don't blame him. I have only Solaris that's by him, and gotta admit- it's on another level.

[srean]

Too bad that I wouldn't be able to read Lem in the original. It's not an easy language to learn, is what I hear.