A review by aarongertler
A Perfect Vacuum by Stanisław Lem

3.0

3.5. Most of Lem's experiments aren't particularly successful, but the few that work [i]really[/i] work. (The New Cosmogony, Rien du Tout, and the titular introduction.) Too many of the rest either read like actual reviews of fairly bland books (Idiota, Gruppenfuhrer) or drop the book-review conceit and become mediocre essays (Die Kultur, Odysseus). I left with no desire to read or read about any of these fictional books, save for Rien du Tout and The New Cosmogony -- and the latter, I'd already seen done masterfully in the form of the [i]Remembrance of Earth's Past[/i] trilogy.

(As far as stories worth reading separately, U-Write-It wasn't bad, either.)