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		nephihaha 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where did all the starships go? There are some brilliant SF writers from the eastern bloc. They had to write to get around censorship and the official line. Stanislaw Lem is great.

chasil 38 days ago [–]

Why was George Clooney persuaded to make such a bad adaptation of Solaris?

nephihaha 38 days ago | [–]

You've no argument from me there. Lem was unhappy with aspects of Tarkovsky's version saying he had not written about people's sex problems in space. Nonetheless it is often a very beautiful film.

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