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TheDon01 posted:The only Lem I've read was Solaris. It was good, but slow and not an action packed book at all. Does he have any other notable scifi books? Lem is pretty awesome. I really like all of his "Tales of Pilot Pirx" (space opera, but very well done), and "The Futurolgical Congress" (amusing farce about mind control drugs). Also, Philip K Dick thought that Lem wasn't a real person, and his works were actually written by a secret committee of communist writers to propagandize americans. He went so far as to share this with the FBI.
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Just picked up Year of Meteors, about the election of 1860 and the political crisis that led to the US civil war.quote:One furious Republican ... wondered how the Chicago Republican convention could have denied the selection to "the most experienced & most competent Statesman."
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Epic High Five posted:what's the best biography of John Brown to read? I've got Midnight Rising but want my first to be entirely about the man because everything I've read about him is cool as hell, and I really want all the details of his meeting with Douglass web du bois wrote a really good one a long time ago. he does a very good job of not only covering his entire life, but also placing his life in historical context. he has an extremely detailed section on that last meeting with douglass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(biography) links to the public domain online text at the bottom of the page (there is also a public domain audiobook).
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