27 March 2006

A great storyteller is gone


Stanislaw Lem, creator of the wonderful robots Trurl and Klapaucius, and of Solaris,has died.

Arms, and machines I sing, that, forc'd by fate,
And haughty Homo's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Terran shore. . .

1 comment:

FSJL said...

You're absolutely right.