Just finished today Vacío Perfecto by Stanislav Lem, what can I say? A poor and few thoughts in my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3287740506 : "if you have not read it yet, then add to your reading list. If you have read then read it again: you will be nicely surprised!"

Why read it again? Several books I read after and made the re-reading of Vacío Perfecto more enjoyable:
I Am a Strange Loop
Consciousness Explained
The Evolution of Cooperation

and many more...
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

and there is no way to forget Ficciones, referenced and inspiration and recognition of Lem to the master writer Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones

In English a beautiful review: The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem

En Español: revista de Ciencia Ficción, de las mejores editada en español (mi opinión), El Péndulo 2 numero 15: https://www.ahira.com.ar/ejemplares/el-pendulo-ii-15/, nota “Prometeo paranoide” por Pablo Capanna

Y una reseña también por Cappana: El inclasificable ( https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/futuro/13-1462-2006-05-06.html)

and if anyone would like to add any philosophy book, of course please do it! for my next re-reading of Vacío Perfecto!

From the New Yorker article #quote In an essay on Borges, Lem said he loved the story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” because it had a “perverse, but logically perfect structure.” The same could be said for much of Lem’s best writing...

...Perverse invention and rational coherence lock into each other at weird, compelling angles in his work

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