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 ...

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 ...

That famous law of Stanisław Lem – ‘Nobody reads. If he reads, he understands nothing. If he understands, he forgets immediately’ – does not mean we have no need to quote the most interesting ...

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 ...