Talk:His Master's Voice (novel)

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Cover Photo[edit]

This is the English language version of the page, right? I think it would be more useful to English readers to put up the most recent English cover instead of the Polish. For example, when I "like" this novel on Facebook, I'd like people to see the most recent cover so they'll look for it and read it. And why there is a photo of the Brazilian version seems pretty random for an English page as well. Genepoz (talk) 08:40, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rename[edit]

I asked whether this article should be moved to His Master's Voice (novel) here.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a good choice to me. I say go ahead. --Elonka 18:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article was selected for DYK![edit]

A fact from His Master's Voice (novel) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that His Master's Voice, one of the most acclaimed science-fiction novels of Stanisław Lem, is also one of Lem's strongest critiques of the science-fiction genre itself?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/June.

Wikipedia

++Lar: t/c 11:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Influence.[edit]

There is very similar book in English, called "Listeners" by James E. Gunn. I do not know if it was influenced directly by His Master's Voice, but construction of the novel is very similar. Maybe somebody knows more about it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:1F0B:527:216:6FFF:FEBA:E060 (talk) 16:48, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See Message from space (science fiction). Staszek Lem (talk) 23:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My recent correction[edit]

At the beginning of Section 7 in the Book it is stated

 The Project, when I made my appearance, had two concrete achievements to show for itself; they were actually one and the same, repeated independently in the biochemistry and biophysics departments. ... "Frog Eggs" and "Lord of the Flies."

Thus I corrected the page, where we now just have

 Before Hogarth's arrival, the scientists were able ...

Oliver Kullmann (talk) 18:02, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Positivism[edit]

is not the position that scientists can proceed without being influenced by their attachment to the outside world. Whereas that position would strengthen the outlook for positivism as a practicable programme (and we are about a century late for that debate), it is not implied by positivism. 92.184.121.14 (talk) 14:20, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]