readthenotes1 7 days ago

Different take:

A solid accusation of being a commie is just the cover that Lem needed to stay out of trouble back home in Poland.

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notahacker 7 days ago

That might have been a more interesting hypothesis about motivation if Philip K Dick was denouncing Lem as a communist propaganda on stage at a convention rather than in a private letter to the FBI

readthenotes1 7 days ago

Ah, but with all the moles, perhaps PKD was thinking a private letter to the FBI was a public letter to the KGB