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 ...

WARSAW, Poland – 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 ...

Stanisław Lem's penultimate novel 'Peace on Earth' (1984) is part of his anti-utopian deliberations on universal disarmament. Although the military arsenals of several world powers were shipped to the ...

Google has today honoured the Polish Sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem with what has to be one of Google’s most interactive Doodles to date. The Doodle, which can be found at Google.pl and on the main ...

The “Solaris” author’s centenary is being celebrated from Poland to the International Space Station. The range of his work is similarly dizzying. By Roisin Kiberd In “The Eighth Voyage,” a short story ...

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 ...

Like a lot of kids, I was hipped to Stanislaw Lem, the Polish master of genre fiction, by a bespectacled, pony-tailed fellow-traveler among the self-segregated literary geeks who congregated at one ...

Stanislaw Lem, illus. by Jon J Muth, trans. from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Graphix, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-545-00462-6 Delicately washed panel artwork by Caldecott Honoree Muth (Zen Shorts) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...