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The Truth and Other Stories

by Stanisław Lem

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Simona B said: " I'm planning to savour this slowly, reading maybe a story per month or so. I'm actually reading the collection in the Italian translation, included in the marvellous, marvellous omnibus edition published as Universi. So far, I've read "Rat in the Lab ...more "

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