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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joshua grew up in poverty, deep in the Middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Gaming was a rarely afforded escape from reality that persisted throughout his life, something that saw him through good times and ...

Stanislaw Lem, who has died aged 84, was a Polish author whose work employed and subverted the conventions of science fiction and other genres to tackle philosophical questions and to circumvent ...

Hank Whitson is a pop culture omnivore, gaming geek, escapism nerd, and unrepentant anime addict who has been writing for Game Rant since 2020. He plays and writes about literally everything, but ...

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 TRUTH AND OTHER STORIES By Stanislaw Lem Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones DIALOGUES By Stanislaw Lem Translated by Peter Butko One hundred years of the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is more than ...

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 ...

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 ...