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 ...

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.

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Stanislaw Lem's 1976 tale "The Seventh Voyage" is small in various ways: Besides taking place inside a cramped spaceship and featuring only one character (well, sort of), it's quite short and is ...

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 ...

Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold ...