Stanislaw Lem

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

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...

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....

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

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

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

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 obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister...

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. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as...

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...

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

Der Roboter Graumer möchte gern den idealen Menschen schaffen. Alles fängt damit an, dass der Schriftsteller Clempner völlig...

Der König von Robotanien will einen Thronfolger. Maximatus und Minimatus, die beiden königlichen Großprogrammierer, die ihn...

Die Sammlung Sterntagebücher ist eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Reisen der großen Sternfahrer Pilot Pirx und Ijon Tichy sowie der beiden...

Stanislav Lem gelingt es in "Robotermärchen", seine dichterische Gabe der Erfindung mit der wissenschaftstheoretischen Erfassung von Problemen...

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

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

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....

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.....