Biography of Stanislaw Lem


Study Guides on Works by Stanislaw Lem

In the height of the Cold War, a Polish author by the name of Stanislaw Lem (pronounced: stah-nis-wahv lem) was working feverishly publishing short science fiction works rapidly. He became something of a superstar in the realm of science fiction...

Solaris was first published in Warsaw, Poland in 1961 and was later translated from Polish into French and finally into English in 1970. This unique science fiction novel was written by Stanislaw Lem.

The protagonist Kris Kelvin is a psychologist...