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  1. 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. Lem's books have been translated into ...

  2. PG7158.L392 Z53 1985. Solaris is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It follows a crew of scientists on a research station as they attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes the form of a vast ocean on the titular alien planet. The novel is one of Lem's best-known works.

  3. Apr 9, 2024 · Multiple AI companies christened their products after Lem’s 1961 sci-fi classic, Solaris . In Lem’s Summa Technologiae we find hypotheses on the nature of technology and how it mediates human ...

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  4. Stanisław Lem, Steve Cox (Translator), Joanna Kilmartin (Translator) 3.99. 111,486 ratings7,424 reviews. A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in ...

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  5. A Perfect Vacuum. 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.

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    • 1971
  6. Solaris. „Solaris” is the most famous of Lem's novels. It had been reviewed many times in various countries and in various languages. It belongs – probably as no other Polish literary work – to the core of its genre, to the canon: a novel about contact with aliens cannot be omitted in discussions of world science fiction.

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  8. Mar 27, 2006 · The Man Booker International Prize was different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction in that it highlighted one writer’s overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. In focusing on overall literary excellence, the judges considered a writer’s body of work rather than a single novel. Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer ...

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