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  1. Website. lem .pl. Stanisław Herman Lem ( Polish: [staˈɲiswaf ˈlɛm] ⓘ; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of novels, short stories and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character.

  2. From the autobiographical Highcastle. Stanislaw Lem was born in Lvov on September 12th 1921 to a family of a laryngologist. Since 1932 he attended the K. S. Szajnocha II State Grammar School in Lvov where he received a secondary school certificate in 1939. Between 1940 and 1941, after the occupation of Lvov by Soviet troops, Lem studied ...

  3. callendarium. f Share. 1921. Stanislaw Lem was born in Lwow, Poland (presently Lviv, Ukraine) to a family of a wealthy laryngologist. 1932. starts education at the II K. Szajnocha State Grammar School in Lwow. 1939. obtains secondary school certificate. 1940-41.

  4. Stanisław Lem. (1921-2006) one of the greatest contemporary writers—„a virtuoso storyteller” according to the „New York Times”, whose books „convey the sense of a mind hovering above the boundaries of the human condition.”. While most of his works bear the broad „science fiction” label he was a master of a number of genres ...

  5. A Perfect Vacuum ( Polish: Doskonała próżnia) is a 1971 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem, the largest and best known collection of Stanisław Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexisting books. [1] . It was translated into English by Michael Kandel.

  6. Jul 11, 1987 · July 10, 1987 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. KRAKOW, POLAND -- Stanislaw Lem had been back in Poland from his western home in Vienna only three days this month when, still feeling the jolt of an East-West ...

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  8. Some of Lem's works in 9 languages. Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction writer. His works have been translated into 40 languages and over 30 million copies have been sold.

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