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, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an...

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem...

Der Erzähler heißt Ijon Tichy: der Held der Sterntagebücher setzt hier seine außerirdischen Erkundungen fort. Zunächst betreibt er in der Schweiz Studien im Institut für Geschichtsmaschinen, einer Filiale des Ministeriums für...

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a...

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem...

Stanislaw Lam, geboren am 13. 9. 1921 in Lwów, lebt heute in Kraków. Er studierte Medizin und war nach dem Staatsexamen als Assistent für Probleme der angewandten Psychologie tätig. Privat beschäftigte er sich mit Problemen der...