lukeprog wrote: "Now: What are your favorite pieces of writing advice?"
"On Style" by Arthur Schopenhauer
German original: http://aboq.org/schopenhauer/parerga2/stil.htm
English translation: http://tinyurl.com/68oajcg
Excerpt: "It would generally serve writers in good stead if they would see that, whilst a man should, if possible, think like a great genius, he should talk the same language as everyone else. Authors should use common words to say uncommon things. But they do just the opposite. We find them trying to wrap up trivial idea...
Unfortunately, Lem's most thought provoking book, Summa Technologiae (1964), was never (completely) translated into English.
There is only a partial translation into English: http://web.archive.org/web/20041012053805/http://wwwnlds.physik.tu-berlin.de/~prengel/Lem/contents.htm
Russian translation: http://lib.ru/LEM/summa/summtitl.htm