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.

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 ...

Like a lot of kids, I was hipped to Stanislaw ... Eden, in which a Star Trek–like interstellar mission discovers a planet with a domineering and invisible totalitarian government, each ...

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 ...

The man, Stanislaw Lem, who was to become one of world’s most famous science fiction writers, used to “mend” German vehicles so they would break down. The habit never left him. With Summa ...