Oh, he's a wonderful writer, and I'm delighted to have something more to
read by Lem, thanks to Dave--Candice
P.S. At the risk of tangling the threads, is anyone going to tape that
production of Britten's _Owen Wingrave_ tomorrow night? (hint, hint) I would
gladly pay for a copy and the postage to send it stateside, if so.
on 7/27/01 7:37 PM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Thanks, David - another author I really should read. I only know him from
> the film of Solaris.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 27 July 2001 23:55
> Subject: Re: Steiner
>
>
>> Ah well here's a pressie for you Matthew, deserved indeed for those
>> beautiful, tantalising poems in your Feature, if you go to the possibly
> best
>> Lem site on the Web:
>>
>> http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/lem/#fables
>>
>> you will find among the links on a long page the fable entire. With, I
>> understand, the author's permission.
>>
>> And yeah, Gigamesh was brilliant, amazed Patrick didn't do a sequel, the
> one
>> that really gets me from 'A Perfect Vacuum', the heart-rending finale to
>> 'Personoids' apart, is the outrageously funny and , too, deadly serious
>> 'Gruppenfuhrer Louis the XVI'. What a fillum that could make.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
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