VITRIFAX:

The writing of Stanislaw Lem

By Matt McIrvin

The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was one of the most brilliant, versatile, and unapologetically cerebral authors on the planet.

Contents

• Introduction: About Lem's style, his popularity in America, and the problem of translation
• Series and themes that recur in Lem's work
• Other Lem resources on the Web
• About these pages
  • Why you should not believe my ratings
  • Why you should not believe my dates
• Reviews:
  • Novels
    • The Astronauts
    • The Chain of Chance (also titled The Cold)
    • Eden
    • Fiasco
    • The Futurological Congress
    • His Master's Voice
    • Hospital of the Transfiguration
    • The Investigation
    • The Invincible
    • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
    • Peace on Earth
    • Return from the Stars
    • Solaris
  • Collections of short stories and experimental works
    • The Cyberiad
    • Imaginary Magnitude (includes GOLEM XIV)
    • Memoirs of a Space Traveler
    • More Tales of Pirx the Pilot
    • Mortal Engines (includes Fables for Robots and The Mask)
    • One Human Minute
    • A Perfect Vacuum
    • The Star Diaries
    • Tales of Pirx the Pilot
  • Nonfiction
    • Highcastle: A Remembrance
    • Microworlds
    • A Stanislaw Lem Reader
• Embedded essays:
  • On the pleasures of made-up science
  • Stanislaw Lem and cold-war satire
  • Stanislaw Lem and Douglas Adams
  • Solaris (1972), the film by Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Solaris (2002), the film by Stephen Soderbergh