To remember Stanislaw Lem.(Critical essay)

From: Extrapolation | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Stanislaw Lem, Polish fiction writer, critic, and polymath, died in March 2006, in his 85th year. This major writer needs remembering and critical honoring. One may easily find an overview of his principal works on his homepage www.lem.pl/, in the many obituaries, and in my own 1995 encyclopedia article, so I shall here focus on a juxtaposition of his weakness and strength as I see them now.

CONTRA: I'm taking as my first text here Lem's Summa Technologiae, written (astoundingly) around 1960 and published in Polish a few years later. This is a most sweeping, at the time ...

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