Earlier this month, my partners asked me to blog under his Glaxay RTS website: to promote gay-themed compute/web-based game, which is still under-development but I can promise you there are particularly handsome men.
My first posted was about The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (1965), which we were reading for the Amsterdam SciFi bookclub. Given the target Galaxy RTS audience is LGBTQ, I was trying to pull out the gay themes, which was hard as this book was written under strict censorship i.e. of 1960s cold-war Poland. Still, I had a little fun with my blog post and used a bit of imagination :
When we discussed this at book club, other people also picked up that The Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy, which written in 1974 came just after The Cyberiad. and seems to have been lightly skimmed many of the best ideas. Still, while the sparkling prose in The Cyberiad out classes Hitchiker's, the advantages Hitchiker's has is that there is a stronger storyline and narrative arch. Ultimately as a collection of futuristic SciFi fables, most of us agreed that The Cyberiad is fantastic writing but not the sort of book you want to read cover to cover
My first posted was about The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (1965), which we were reading for the Amsterdam SciFi bookclub. Given the target Galaxy RTS audience is LGBTQ, I was trying to pull out the gay themes, which was hard as this book was written under strict censorship i.e. of 1960s cold-war Poland. Still, I had a little fun with my blog post and used a bit of imagination :
Are Trurl and Klapaucius a bit gay?
https://www.galaxyrts.com/2019/08/the-cyberiad.htmlI did enjoy that Klapaucius knew exactly where to tickle Trurl (so maybe they were gay) but to be frank none of the characters in the novel had significant "romantic love interests", yes there is the femfatalatron but that wast just pure fantasy ;)
When we discussed this at book club, other people also picked up that The Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy, which written in 1974 came just after The Cyberiad. and seems to have been lightly skimmed many of the best ideas. Still, while the sparkling prose in The Cyberiad out classes Hitchiker's, the advantages Hitchiker's has is that there is a stronger storyline and narrative arch. Ultimately as a collection of futuristic SciFi fables, most of us agreed that The Cyberiad is fantastic writing but not the sort of book you want to read cover to cover
