At the beginning of the 1950s, Stanisław Lem put on the mask of a science fiction writer. Within this style, the debuting author found refuge from the then enforced doctrine of socialist realism which ...

For a man who claimed he couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, Stanisław Lem’s writings contain remarkable musical visions – and ...

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 ...

Google has created its most elaborate Doodle yet to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Polish author Stanis?aw Lem’s first book, The Astronauts. Google Doodle: 60th anniversary of Stanislaw Lem's first ...

J. Madison Davis. Stanislaw Lem. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990. ix+116. $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper. There is a popular Polish maxim: na bezrybiu i rak ryba, which might be paraphrased as ...

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 ...

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 animated feature shows a pensive character with a striking resemblance to the Solaris author who, after some pondering, meets a giant robot. Google users can then move their mouse cursor to ...

Stanislaw Lem, writer: born Lwow, Poland 12 September 1921; married 1953 Barbara Lesniak (one son); died Krakow, Poland 27 March 2006. Along with Czeslaw Milosz, Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years ...

Google has created its most elaborate Doodle yet to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Polish author Stanis?aw Lem’s first book, The Astronauts. 1. Stanis?aw Lem was born on September 12, 1921, in Lwów ...