Solaris - new translation

[tanngrisnir]

The English translation of Stanisław Lem's Solaris that's on sale everywhere is widely known to be not very good. (Lem himself was not happy with it.) Hardly surprising when it's a a translation of a French translation from the Polish that's apparently not brilliant. A guy called Bill Johnston has produced a new translation, more faithful to

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[alexmc]

I was always confused by Lem's erratic writing in English - until I figured out that the books I really enjoyed by him were also translated by him into English...