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Stanisław Herman Lem ( Polish: [staˈɲiswaf ˈlɛm] ⓘ; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction 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 more ...
Apr 25, 2024 · They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Stanisław Lem (born September 12, 1921, Lwów, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]—died March 27, 2006, Kraków, Poland) was a Polish author of science fiction that veers between humanism and despair about human limitations. His books have been translated into more than 35 ...
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Feb 27, 2024 · February 27, 2024. Illustration by Mark Pernice. “We are going to speak of the future,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem wrote, in “ Summa Technologiae ,” from 1964, a series of essays ...
Edited by Ra Page. A collection of three translated short works by Lem ( The Lilo; Darkness and Mildew; The Invasion from Aldebaran) and works by other authors but inspired by Lem. (2011). The Truth and Other Stories (2022) – short stories collection, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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 ...
Feb 10, 2017 · Last year, a friend of mine dropped this quite unusual collection of short stories in my lap, and I am grateful that they did: Stanisław Lem’s 1965 collection of bizarre, funny and thoughtful tales was a greatly enjoyable read. Lem’s short stories, translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel, run counter to the general stereotypes…
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None of Lem's series took so long to write; there were thirty years between the first and last tale of „The Star Diaries” (“The Advantages of the Dragon”). Author's inventiveness in creating fantastic worlds and extraordinary plots seems endless. The famous interstellar traveler Ijon Tichy on the one hand resembles baron Münchausen, on ...
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