Culture.pl’s Igor Belov gives us the full story. Cover of the Kilmartin & Cox mass-market paperback English translation of 'Solaris' by Stanisław Lem, published 1 Jan 1971, photo: Berkley Publishing ...

E-books and tablets, smartphones, Google and even ‘The Matrix’ were all conceived in the mid-20th century by the author of ‘Solaris’. Here’s how Stanisław Lem predicted the ... had only one page ...

To provide mirrors which help to expose and challenge the closed, patriarchal minds of Solaris’s futuristic knights, Lem emphasizes gender-suggestive metaphoric figures, including an ocean-like alien ...