The Futurological Congress
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The Futurological Congress
Stanislaw Lem
7 people recommended it in 5 threads, 2016–2021.
What people on Hacker News said
A piece of fiction that has never failed to make me think every time I read it, is: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem.
If you are a logophile, I highly recommend reading "The Futurological Congress".
Polish is a language where you can conjugate everything into something else (nouns into verbs, verbs into nouns, nice words into curse words), and Lem wrote a book that plays off of this linguistic peculiarity in a way that is hilarious.
May I recommend Futurological Congress? Everything is in there, too.
Where it comes up
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