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STANISŁAW LEM Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. “Pirx's Tale" in More Tales of Pirx The Pilot

SHORT BIOGRAPHY • Stanislaw Lem was born in 1922 in Lwow. He was the son of Sabina Woller and Samuel Lem, a wealthy laryngologist. He studied medicine in Lwow University. During Nazi occupation, he survived with false papers. Later, his family moved to Krakov. In 1953 Lem married Barbara Lesnyak. • Lem started his writing career in 1946 by publishing some poems and stories. 1947 – the first book The Man from Mars. 1951 - the first novel Astronauts. He gained international fame for The Cyberiad. • Stanislaw Lem died in 2006 at the age of 84.

WRITING INTERESTS Stanislaw Lem wrote science fiction books, philosophical and literary essays. Topics he discussed in his works: • Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence; • Interaction between humans and robots; • Virtual reality; • Cosmological problems; • Social and technological prospects; • Human evolution.

ASTRONAUTS (1951), THE MAGELLAN NEBULA (1955), EDEN (1959)

THE CYBERIAD (1965)

THE STAR DIARIES (1957)

THE INVINCIBLE (1964) • Problem of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence • Necroevolution

RETURN FROM THE STARS (1961) • Dystopia • Betrization – procedure to neutralize aggressive impulses

OBSERVATION ON THE SPOT (1982) • “The most realistic book” • Prediction of nanobots • Kurdlandia and Luzania on Entia stand for the USSR and the USA

HIS MASTER’S VOICE (1968) • “Contact problem” • Scientists and the government • Ethical problems

TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT (1968)

INQUEST OF PILOT PIRX (1979) • A joint Polish/Estonian/Ukrainian film directed by Marek Piestrak based on the story The Inquest.

SOLARIS (1961)

SOLARIS FILMS Andrey Tarkovsky (1972) Steven Soderbergh (2002)

FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS (1971) • Phantomology (virtual reality)

APOCRYPHA • A Perfect Vacuum (1971) • Imaginary Magnitude (1973) • Provocation (1984)

GOLEM XIV (1981) The greatest book Lem ever wrote. The book is written from the perspective of a military AI computer who obtains consciousness and starts to increase his own intelligence, moving towards personal technological singularity. It pauses its own development for a while in order to be able to communicate with humans before ascending too far and losing any ability for intellectual contact with them. During this period, Golem XIV gives several lectures and indeed serves as a mouthpiece for Lem's own research claims. The lectures focus on mankind's place in the process of evolution and the possible biological and intellectual future of humanity.

FIASCO (1986) The last novel Lem wrote. The events take part in near future and 100 years after. Also the novel refers to old sci -fi. The main idea is impossibility of communication between humans and aliens because of our cruelty and xenophobia.

SUMMA TECHNOLOGIAE • The book is divided in 8 chapters, each dealing with far-fetched implications of a certain concept: • 1. Dilemmas. • 2. Two Evolutions. This chapter deals with a similarities between several evolutions: biological, technological and social ones. • 3. Space Civilizations. An overview of SETI efforts and theories are given, along with a solid portion of their criticism • . 4. Intellectronics. The day will come when machine intelligence will rival or surpass the human one. Moreover, problems facing humankind may surpass the intellectual abilities of flesh and blood researchers. What shall we expect (or fear) in this conception of the future? • 5. Prolegomena to Omnipotence. Technological evolution gives us more and more abilities—in fact, sometime in the future we should be able to do everything at all! Or maybe not? • 6. Phantomology. Human perception is limited by biology—so maybe we can bypass the real omnipotence in favor of an imitated one? Even in this case, Lem finds many surprising problems. • 7. Creation of the Worlds. May it be that instead of painstaking research we can "grow" new information from available information in an automatic way? Starting with this question Lem evolves the concept to the creation of the whole new Universes, including (as a special treat) the construction of heaven/hell/afterlife enabled one.

NON-FICTION • Fantasy and Futurology (1970) • Dialogs (1957)

THE MEGABIT BOMB (1999)

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