Lem, the kind of curmogeon who would despise all American science fiction authors but our own resident Weird Boy Phillip K Dick.
Dick, the kind of guy to write the FBI to accuse you of being a composite committee operating on behalf of the USSR when you compliment him.
![Text from Wikipedia: "Lem singled out only one[47] American science fiction writer for praise, Philip K. Dick, in a 1984 English-language anthology of his critical essays, Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy. Lem had initially held a low opinion of Philip K. Dick (as he did for the bulk of American science fiction) and would later say that this was due to a limited familiarity with Dick's work, since Western literature was hard to come by in the Polish People's Republic.
Dick alleged that Stanisław Lem was probably a false name used by a composite committee operating on orders of the Communist party to gain control over public opinion, and wrote a letter to the FBI to that effect.[48] There were several attempts to explain Dick's act. Lem was responsible for the Polish translation of Dick's work Ubik in 1972, and when Dick felt monetarily short-changed by the publisher, he held Lem personally responsible (see Microworlds).[49][48] Also it was suggested that Dick was under the influence of strong medications, including opioids, and may have experienced a "slight disconnect from reality" some time before writing the letter.[48] A "defensive patriotism" of Dick against Lem's attacks on American science fiction may have played some role as well.[48] Lem would later mention Dick in his monograph Science Fiction and Futurology."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:354pkbe74asyvnuqwiphfmwx/bafkreihuqybbyqlafw5lge3pzqo66a3vehb4eyaywz2tip5zwrlwfwokom)
![[crashed and exploding fighter jets, a pilot using the ejector seat, another pilot giving a thumbs up from the cockpit]
YEP, ANOTHER CERTIFIED MARTIN-BANGER:
9,835,098,129 crashed F-16s
1,823,058,520 crashed F-18s
9,823,589 crashed F-35s
0 failed ejections
seriously we're losing like two jets a week at this point what's going on does anyone know](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xdrmdificlltovjippwxtyl5/bafkreidgtn4glykyv5jlslbpkse26tilfoideglc3fmp2wwvj4rhmiokay)
