The science-fiction writer and futurist Stanisław Lem was well acquainted with the ... The stories are far from the robot pulp made famous by Isaac Asimov and are almost disturbing in their ...

Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, and American Science Fiction. ... Isaac Asimov) to stylists notable for wordplay (Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury). Lem fiercely critiques US science fiction’s “can-do” ...

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 ...

Stanislaw Lem, trans. from the Polish by Joel Stern, Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek and Antonia Lloyd-Jones. MIT, $17.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-262-53850-3 The late Lem (1921–2006 ...

Fourteen years after his death, the universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem. And for my money, it won’t be surpassing him anytime soon.

Stanislaw Lem, 84, a Polish-born writer of "reality based" science fiction who tweaked Communist authorities and became one of the world's best-selling authors with books such as "Solaris" and ...

Here’s how Stanisław Lem predicted the future we live in. Stanisław Lem was probably the first sci-fi writer to accurately predict the end of paper books and the arrival of electronic formats and ...

Stanislaw Lem, trans. from the Polish by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. MIT, $17.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-262-53848-0 Lem’s thought-provoking, reissued 1961 classic explores the ...