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Stanislaw Lem
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Author : Richard E. Ziegfeld
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1985-01-01
Stanislaw Lem written by Richard E. Ziegfeld and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01-01 with Authors, Polish categories.
Briefly recounts the life of the Polish writer, discusses his novels and major short stories, and examines the themes of his work
A Stanislaw Lem Reader
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Author : Stanisław Lem
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1997-11-12
A Stanislaw Lem Reader written by Stanisław Lem and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of writings by and about, and interviews with, one of the most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.
Stanislaw Lem
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Stanislaw Lem written by Peter Swirski and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
This title brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.
The Truth And Other Stories
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Author : Stanislaw Lem
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
The Truth And Other Stories written by Stanislaw Lem and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Fiction categories.
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.
Stanislaw Lem
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Author : Stanisław Lem
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Text
Release Date : 2014
Stanislaw Lem written by Stanisław Lem and has been published by Liverpool Science Fiction Text this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Stanislaw Lem: Life and Selected Letters Peter Swirski brings the unknown elements of Lem's legacy to light. Filled with a welter of personal and historical detail and enriched by Lem's comments from personal letters to the author, the biographical section traces the thread of Lem's life and career in the context of his cultural influence, telling the story of one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the century. It is followed by a comprehensive critical overview of Lem's belletristic and philosophical oeuvre which comprises not only the classics like Solaris, but his untranslated first novels, realistic prose, experimental works, volumes of nonfiction, latter-day metafiction, as well as the final twenty years of polemics and essays. The letters deliver an annotated translation of Lem's fifteen-year correspondence with his principal American translator. Covering the entire central period of Lem's life and career, they offer unparalleled vistas on the raw intellectual powers, smouldering literary passions, as well as startling and revealing personal concerns.
Holocaust And The Stars
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Author : Agnieszka Gajewska
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-11-29
Holocaust And The Stars written by Agnieszka Gajewska and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Fiction categories.
This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanisław Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context of Lem’s early life and his traumatic experiences during the Second World War due to his Jewish background, and then traces these through original and brilliant readings of his fiction and non-fiction. She considers language, worldbuilding, themes, motifs and characterization as well as many buried allusions to the Holocaust in Lem’s published and archival work, and uses these fragments to capture a different side of Lem than previously known. The book discusses various issues concerning the writer’s life, such as his upbringing in a Jewish, Zionist-minded family, the extensive relations between the Lem family and the elite of Lviv at that time, details of the Lem family killed during the German occupation and attempts to reconstruct what happened to Lem’s parents and to the writer himself after escaping the ghetto. Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this English translation of the Polish original, which has already been considered a milestone in Lem studies, offers a fresh perspective on the writer and his work. It will be an important intervention for scholars and researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust literature, science fiction studies, English literature, world war studies, minority studies, popular culture, history and cultural studies.
Peace On Earth
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Author : Stanislaw Lem
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2002-12-04
Peace On Earth written by Stanislaw Lem and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-04 with Fiction categories.
Are the self-programming robots on the moon ensuring "peace on Earth", or are they secretly plotting a terrestrial invasion of their own? This "futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (Boston Phoenix) presents a hilarious take on the conflict between the world's two hemispheres from "one of science fiction's true intellectuals" (Kirkus).
The Invincible
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Author : Stanislaw Lem
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-02-18
The Invincible written by Stanislaw Lem and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Fiction categories.
A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanisław Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge? In The Invincible, Lem has his characters confront the inexplicable and the bizarre: the problem that lies just beyond analytical reach.
The Art And Science Of Stanislaw Lem
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Author : Peter Swirski
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2006
The Art And Science Of Stanislaw Lem written by Peter Swirski and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Leading scholars examine the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of Stanislaw Lem, the author of Solaris.
A Perfect Vacuum
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Author : Stanisław Lem
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1999
A Perfect Vacuum written by Stanisław Lem and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Fiction categories.
"In a perfect vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature - works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's "games for games' sake" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results." "Most of the "reviews" target the postmodern infatuation with antinarratives by lampooning their self-indulgence and exploiting their mannerisms. Lem exposes the limits of postmodern fiction, showing how its studious self-consciousness frequently conceals intellectual paucity. Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackle (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers." --Book Jacket.