Stanisław Lem

Solaris là một tiểu thuyết khoa học viễn tưởng của Stanisław Lem, xuất bản ở Ba Lan năm 1961 và là tác phẩm nổi tiếng nhất của ông trong số các tác phẩm được dịch sang tiếng Anh. Trong khi con người lao vào các cuộc thám hiểm chinh phục không gian với những khát khao và hoài bão lớn lao của mình thì ở đâu đó trong …

Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations. The Cyberiad is oddly reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Phantom …

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. …

Nhật ký vũ trụ của Ion lặng lẽ là một tuyển tập truyện ngắn của nhà văn Stanisław Lem, nói về những cuộc phiêu lưu của nhà du hành vũ trụ Ion lặng lẽ. Với văn phong hài hước, các yếu tố khoa học viễn tưởng, tác giả khéo léo đưa các vấn đề của xã hội vào một bối cảnh vũ trụ rộng lớn. Các chuyến du hành không được đánh …

His Master's Voice is a science fiction novel written by Stanisław Lem, first published in 1968. It was translated into English by Michael Kandel in 1983. It is a densely philosophical first contact story about an effort by scientists to decode, translate and understand an extraterrestrial transmission. The novel …

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is a science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem first published in 1961. It was first published in English in 1973; a second edition was published in 1986.

From 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' (Guardian), the adventures of Pirx, a hapless everyman in outer space'By now he fancied himself something of a rocket jockey, a space ace, whose real home was among the planets'In a future where space travel has become routine and unremarkable, Pirx the pilot bumbles …

Return from the Stars is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Written in 1961, it revolves around the story of a cosmonaut returning to his homeworld, Earth, and finding it a completely different place than when he left. The novel touches among the ideas of alienation, culture shock and dystopias. …

Fiasco is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, first published in a German translation in 1986. The book, published in Poland the following year, is a further elaboration of Lem's skepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural, rather than spatial, …

The Invincible is a science fiction novel written by Stanisław Lem and published in 1964. The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem's collection Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania. A translation into German was published in 1967; an English translation by Wendayne Ackerman of the German translation …