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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stanislaw Lem, illus. by Jon J Muth, trans. from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Graphix, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-545-00462-6 Delicately washed panel artwork by Caldecott Honoree Muth (Zen Shorts) ...

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 ...

THE WRITER WIRT WILLIAMS HAD a theory that novelists–“like quarterbacks,” he would add–were most likely to flourish if they were reasonably intelligent but not off-the-scale brainy. (“Look at Terry ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...