Stanislaw Lem

At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it....

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.

A brilliantly crafted collection of stories from celebrated science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem....

Als der Psychologe Kris Kelvin auf einer Forschungsstation auf dem Planeten Solaris eintrifft, findet er eine demoralisierte und psychisch...

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be....

Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Frankenstein (1994) is adapted from one of the first science fiction novels, Mary Shelley's tale...

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network....

Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride....

A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space....

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s.

Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on earth....

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.....

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history....

Protagonist Kris Kelvin arrives at a scientific research station hovering above the surface of Solaris, where research has been ongoing for years on the strange ocean life form....

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion....

" Le huitième congrès mondial de futurologie a tenu ses assises au Hilton de Costaricana. J'y assistais. Dès le matin, un commando terroriste enleva...

Der "Unbesiegbare", der größte Kreuzer der menschlichen Raumflotte ist auf einer Mission: Im weit entfernten Sternbild der Leier ist der...

Eine der großen Dystopien des 20. Jahrhunderts - aber lustig. Hier bleibt Ijon Tichy, der Held so vieler lemscher Erzählungen, ausnahmsweise auf dem...

Mit seinen futuristischen Werken war der polnische Schriftsteller Stanisław Lem seiner Zeit voraus. Bereits 1964 beschrieb er mögliche...

Das Raumschiff Kondor ist vor 8 Monaten in der Wüste gestrandet. Es wird von der Besatzung des Schiffes Der Unbesiegbare unversehrt...