Stanisław Lem's penultimate novel 'Peace on Earth' (1984) is part of his anti-utopian deliberations on universal disarmament. Although the military arsenals of several world powers were shipped to the ...

After World War II, Lem never returned to his hometown. But he often referred to Lviv (formerly Lwów) in his books. Which locations were particularly close to the heart of the future author of Solaris ...

The noted science-fiction writer blurs the boundaries between present and future, fiction and nonfiction, in this collection of three apocryphal essays. ""One Human Minute'' purports to be a review of ...

The English language was an obstacle to him though, and he remains under-regarded in the west. Yet he did receive widespread attention on this side of the iron curtain following the release in 1972 of ...

Like a lot of kids, I was hipped to Stanislaw Lem, the Polish master of genre fiction, by a bespectacled, pony-tailed fellow-traveler among the self-segregated literary geeks who congregated at one ...

Stanislaw Lem, a science fiction writer whose novel “Solaris” was made into a movie starring George Clooney, died Monday in his native Poland, his secretary said. He was 84. Lem died in a Krakow ...

THE TRUTH AND OTHER STORIES By Stanislaw Lem Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones DIALOGUES By Stanislaw Lem Translated by Peter Butko One hundred years of the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is more than ...

The Polish Parliament has declared 2021 the “Stanisław Lem Year.” Its slogan, “I’ve seen the future,” might aptly apply to many science-fiction writers. But the visions of Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) ...

The “Solaris” author’s centenary is being celebrated from Poland to the International Space Station. The range of his work is similarly dizzying. By Roisin Kiberd In “The Eighth Voyage,” a short story ...

Google has today honoured the Polish Sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem with what has to be one of Google’s most interactive Doodles to date. The Doodle, which can be found at Google.pl and on the main ...