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Houston Montrose Great Books - book candidates - ballot for June 3, 2010
Six titles will be selected which means anyone attending will each have 6 votes to choose from this list. Voters can use all 6 votes on one title or one vote each on six titles or some combination as long as the voter doesn't use more than 6 votes.
Suggested by Joanna
- THE CYBERIAD by Stanislaw Lem (publ 1965) 312 pages
Author is winner of many prestigious awards both in Poland and abroad.
A collection of stories where main characters are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. From a review at Amazon.com, Lem's style is "the futuristic fable, mixing intellectual slapstick, brilliant wordplay, and deep philosophy."
(note: if this wins, Joanna will select one or two short stories from the collection for us to discuss though reading of the entire book is encouraged and may be used as background for the discussion.)
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