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	Stanisław Lem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lem's writing is full of intelligent humor, puns, and neologisms, and Michael Kandel's translations into English have been praised by many for capturing Lem's style.
		Lem was awarded an honorary membership in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 1973, which was then rescinded in 1976 after he made comments about American pulp science fiction literature.
		Lem is also well-known for criticizing the films based on his work, including two famous creations of Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972) and Steven Soderbergh (2002).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaw_Lem (905 words)

	Scriptorium - Stanislaw Lem
		Lem is arguably the greatest living science fiction writer, and even one of the most important European authors of his generation; yet he commands little critical attention, and has failed to reach discerning American science fiction readers who ought, one would think, to be most interested in him.
		Stanislaw Lem was born in 1921 in Lvov, Poland, to a family of the professional class; both his father and uncle were doctors.
		Lem's experimental tendencies were fully realized in a series of works that gestured outside of themselves to a whole corpus of imaginary literature.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/lem.html (3402 words)

	Nancy Street - Hobbies - Science Fiction - Stanisław Lem
		Lem has a well-rounded knowledge of many areas of science and he weaves his polymath skills into his works in such a way that they have more depth than is normally found in the SF, fantasy and detective output of other more famous specialist authors in these genres.
		Lem likes the detective story genre and he blends it elegantly with SF, His "first contact" stories contain human investigators and explorers who are confronted with alien mysteries that require the greatest imagination and discipline to unravel.
		Lem's descriptions of the scenery and characters are so vivid that screenwriters would have little more work to do than cut 'n' paste the words from the book straight into a screenplay.
	www.orthogonal.com.au /hobby/sf/authors/lem (5409 words)

	Article Abstracts: #40 (Stanislaw Lem)
		Lem emphasizes that a knowledge of scientific facts is vital to his fiction, and Nabokov claims that imagination without knowledge can only produce primitive art.
		Lem and Nabokov thus join in their conviction that science, art, and love all depend upon a balance between imagination and a sense of reality.
		Lem attempts to resolve the conflict between reality's lack of order and art's "excess of order"--and to depict the "philosophy of chance" in fiction.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a40.htm (2719 words)

	Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress
		Lem's New York of 2039 is built on the remains of the American capitalist system, something which strikes fear into the hearts of good socialists, as Tichy's character is.
		Tichy's reluctance to experiment with the various drugs, and his abhorence of their effects, serve as Lem's warning about the drug culture which was flourishing at the time he wrote the novel.
		Nevertheless, Lem writes with a humor underlined by his commentary on the way the world is, and he does so in a manner that The Futurological Congress is as appropriate in 1998 as it was in 1971.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/lem.html (486 words)

	Stanislaw Lem biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After finishing his studies Stanislaw Lem opted not to take final exams to avoid a career as a military doctor, and received only a certificate of completion of studies.
		Lem is a proponent of modern Western civilization, and, despite having spent a significant portion of his career in Communist Poland and its attendant ideological censorship, his opus contains harsh critcism of collectivist societies.
		Lem's writing is full of very intelligent humor, full of puns, wordplay, and other tricks, and has been translated brilliantly into English by Michael Kandel.
	stanislaw-lem.biography.ms (717 words)

	Stanislaw Lem on the Web
		Stanislaw Lem was born in Lvov, Poland in 1921.
		Stanislaw Lem was born in Lwow, Poland to a family of a wealthy laryngologist...
		Stanislaw Lem received the honorary doctoral degree (Dr. rer.nat.h.c.) from the Bielefeld University on November 13, 2003
	www.lem.pl /english/main.htm (896 words)

	Wired 10.12: Solaris, Rediscovered
		Yet the main reason Lem's never become established here is that his wit has always been too cruel, his love of science too prominent, his outlook too cerebral to fit easily into a publishing niche devoted to fairy-tale adventures and timeworn astronaut yarns.
		Lem was living in Krakow at the time, and had already made a name for himself in Poland and Russia.
		Lem, whose family was of Jewish ancestry, survived the Nazi occupation by a combination of luck and deceit.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.12/solaris.html (1205 words)

	Vitrifax: On Stanislaw Lem - Introduction
		Stanislaw Lem is one of the few SF writers in a language other than English whose work is widely available (in translation) in the United States.
		Since Stanislaw Lem writes in a language that has only several tens of millions of native speakers, a large fraction of his readers encounter his work in translation, and which books have the best translations undoubtedly varies from language to language.
		Lem did most of his writing in Krakow and Zakopane, except for a period in the 1980s when he lived in Vienna, Austria.) In other, more annoying cases, the English translation only bears the translation's copyright date, which can be decades later than the original publication of the book.
	world.std.com /~mmcirvin/vitrifaxintro.html (1827 words)

	Stanislaw Lem about himself
		Stanislaw Lem was born in Lvov on September 12th 1921 to a family of a laryngologist.
		During the German occupation Lem worked as a mechanic helper and welder for a German firm that recycled raw materials.
		Between 1948 and 1950 Lem worked as a junior research assistant at the Konserwatorium Naukoznawcze (The Circle for the Science of Science) lead by doctor Mieczyslaw Choynowski.
	www.lem.pl /english/osobie/biogrys.htm (427 words)

	Lem
		Lem: I was using humour for various reasons.
		Lem: Well, more depends here on similarity between cultural environment, than on the translator's skills.
		Lem: I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/2594/lem.html (1831 words)

	Mind's Eye I: Stanislaw Lem's Solaris
		Planetary Id Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is one of the most important science fiction writers of all, but is little known to genre readers.
		Lem's view is that the human exploration of the Cosmos is not so much to discover the New as it is a narcissistic desire to expand the boundaries of Earth to fill the Universe.
		Lem, the brothers Strugatsky, Bulychev, Ivan Yefremov and others produced really first-rate stuff, and most of it ended up in English translation.
	www.strangewords.com /archive/solaris.html (780 words)

	Stanislaw Lem
		Lem walks a narrow line by pretending to be a superintelligent machine, and I don't think he quite pulls it off, although the story is nevertheless very interesting.
		Lem is a harsh critic of western science fiction, therefore this book is not for the weak-stomached sci-fi fan.
		Lem's main objection is that science fiction falls among trivial literature (such as westerns, detective stories, or romantic fiction) despite claims to the contrary.
	catalog.com /hopkins/lem/Lem.html (4692 words)

	Stanislaw Lem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stanisław Lem (born September 12, 1921) is a PolandPolish satiresatirical, philosophical and science fiction/ writer.
		Lem principally wrote about impossibility of communication between humans and profoundly alien civilizations and about the technological future of humanity.
		The latter topic included, by implication, ideal and utopian societies and the problem of human existence in a world where there is little to do because of technological development.
	www.infothis.com /find/Stanislaw_Lem (761 words)

	Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
		Lem is holding up a mirror of introspection about the human race and our technological future - the aliens the expedition sets out to contact are in many ways us, at least the collectivised Communo-Capitalist version of ourselves.
		Lem is his ruthless recognition of the fact that for mankind, the primary benefit of technological advancement has been the acquisition of power, and we sure can't get enough of THAT.
		Perhaps Lem does not display a firm understanding of science to some readers, but it is obvious to me that he not only understands the science behind his ideas he is capable of explaining that understanding in the way he can illustrate the possibilities and limitations of his machines.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Fiasco-0151306400.htm (1587 words)

	Stanislaw Lem Quotes Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stanislaw Lem is one of the world's great science fiction writers.
		Lem has lived in both Poland and Austria.
		The remake Lem refers to below has recently been released, and was directed by Steven Soderbergh.
	www.testermanscifi.org /LemQuotesPart1.html (532 words)

	Stanislaw Lem Bibliography.
		Stanislaw Lem is a polish science fiction writer known for his satire, humor, and frequently irreverent reflections of society.
		This is an early Lem novel, but many elements of his later fiction are present: robots and cyberneticist, machine evolution, and mechanical insects.
		Stanislaw Lem: A Stranger in a Strange Land, by Peter Swirski,.
	www.rpi.edu /~sofkam/lem (2805 words)

	Lem, Stanislaw -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The Cathedral of St. Stanislaw was first built in 1387 and was most recently rebuilt as a neoclassical structure in 1801.
		The Polish writer Wladyslaw Reymont is remembered especially for his epic novel Chl (The Peasants), a blend of naturalism and realism written almost entirely in rural dialect.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9384402?tocId=9384402&query=sci-fi&ct=eb (501 words)

	Study Guide for Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961)
		During the Soviet era, Polish writer Stanislaw Lem was the most celebrated SF author in the Communist world.
		Lem studied medicine, and was probably taken by the name when he encountered it in his anatomical studies.
		Whereas Verne is seeking to educate (sometimes simply copying out long passages from reference books), Lem uses a Kafkaesque technique to bewilder the reader with a plethora of concrete detail which does little to unveil the mystery, only multiplying possibilities, though in brilliant language.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/solaris.html (2519 words)

	Planet BrainSex: Stanislaw Lem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lem is not a typical science fiction writer, as many unappreciative sci-fi fans will tell you; he is writer addressing profound philosophical issues and telling fantastic tales -- often compared with Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges.
		Lem is best known to English readers for his 1961 novel Solaris (English translation 1970), on which Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky based his epic 1971 film, and for his 1967 collection of robot fables The Cyberiad (English translation 1974).
		It can be, yet Lem is anything but dull.
	www.webcom.com /bsx/lem.html (125 words)

	Lviv Ukraine - Stanislaw Lem
		Lem's books were translated into thirty six languages with over twenty seven million copies.
		Lem is best known to English readers for his 1961 novel Solaris, on which Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky based his 1971 film.
		The main subject are Lem's late childhood and his adolescence (high school years).
	www.lvivbest.com /Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-129-page-1.html (296 words)

	About Stanislaw Lem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stanislaw Lem was born in 1921 in Lwów, Poland, but after the Second World War settled in Kraków.
		Lem is both well-respected and a popular and widely-read writer -- note the large nummber of books in translation, and their relatively reasonable prices!
		Other interesting comparisons would be with EE authors such as the Strugatsky brothers; or compare Lem's Solaris with the film Andrei Tarkovsky made of it, or its more recent Western remake.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/sforres1/syllabi/15R/lem.html (604 words)

	Stanislaw Lem Bibliography
		Stanislaw Lem was born in Lwow in 1921.
		While still a student Lem had been interested in cybernetics, and at the beginning of the fifties he turned to another litterary genre: science fiction.
		Lem became on of the most widely read Poliosh contemorary writers with 'Astronauci' (1951 Planet of Death) and 'Oblok Magellana' (The Magellan Cloud).
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Stanislaw_Lem.htm (216 words)

	A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem)
		A English language bibliography of Lem's books and articles and of critical studies thereon completes the volume.
		The focus throughout is on Lem as a philosopher and futurologist: there is little discussion of his works of fiction (he prefers to leave that to the critics).
		For those who only know him as a novelist, A Stanislaw Lem Reader is an excellent introduction to Lem's philosophy, scientific speculation, literary criticism, and social theory.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Lem_Reader.html (150 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: L: Lem, Stanislaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Futurological Congress and the Future of Illusion - Stanislaw Lem foresaw the coming of the age of simulation in which humanity would lose itself in a world of illusions.
		Stanislaw Lem - Biographical and bibliographical information on the author.
		Stanislaw Lem page - at Planet BrainSex; comprised of a brief biographical blurb, some artwork, and a page with links to further online resources.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/L/Lem,_Stanislaw (359 words)

	Vitrifax: On Stanislaw Lem - Contents
		The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem is one of the most brilliant, versatile, and unapologetically cerebral authors on the planet.
		Introduction: About Lem's style, his popularity in America, and the problem of translation
		Series and themes that recur in Lem's work
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	Academic Directory on Lem, Stanislaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's official webpage, provides a wealth of biographical and bibliographical information and excerpts of some of his writings, as well as drawings by the author.
		This extensive bibliography of works by Stanislaw Lem was created by Mike Sofka of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
		This guide to Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris was written by Paul Brians of Washington State University.
	www.alllearn.org /er/tree.jsp?c=41964 (180 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Solaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem
		Lem lets us know several things up front, the planet is suspected of being an intelligent life form and there is a long history of exploration, strange happenings and accidents that have occurred.
		Lem depicts a truly alien landscape that reflects the alienity of the sentient ocean itself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156027607?v=glance (2204 words)

	eBay - stanislaw lem, Fiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Solaris by Stanislaw Lem; Joanna Kilmartin; Steven Cox
		His Master's Voice by Michael Kandel, Stanislaw Lem...
		Stanislaw Lem - HOSPITAL OF THE TRANSFIGURATION - 1st
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