Stanislaw Lem, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $0 (102p) ISBN 978-0-15-169550-8
The noted science-fiction writer blurs the boundaries between present and future, fiction and nonfiction, in this collection of three apocryphal essays. ""One Human Minute'' purports to be a review of a book collecting statistics on everything that...
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Stanislaw Lem, trans. from the Polish by Joel Stern, Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek and Antonia Lloyd-Jones. MIT, $17.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-262-53850-3
The late Lem (1921–2006) demonstrates his mastery of satirical science fiction in this witty collection of six stories, first published in 1957, all of which are narrated by spacefarer Gulliver Ijon Tichy. “The Eighteenth Voyage,” which opens the...
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Stanislaw Lem, Author, Marc E. Heine, Translator Harvest Books $16 (276p) ISBN 978-0-15-627806-5
After crash-landing on an alien planet known as Eden, the crew of a spaceship begins to explore--and hopelessly misinterpret--the strange surroundings. In this ``stylistic departure from his usual satirical, antic approach. . . . Lem creates an...
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Stanislaw Lem, Author, Peter Swirski, Editor Northwestern University Press $58 (129p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1494-4
With books translated into 40 languages, sales of more than 25 million copies (some seven million in Eastern Europe) and over 20 titles in print with Harcourt, Brace, Polish-born Lem is one of the best-selling unknown writers of science fiction in...
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Stanislaw Lem, Author, William Brand, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (207p) ISBN 978-0-15-142186-2
This first novel by the prolific science fiction author and essayist was completed in 1948, but wasn't published in Poland until 1975, after Lem's reputation was well established. Appearing in English for the first time, this is very much the work...
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Stanislaw Lem, Author, Michael Kandel, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $22 (146p) ISBN 978-0-15-140218-2
Growing up in Lvov, Poland (now in Ukraine), in the 1920s and '30s, science fiction writer Lem shared a six-room apartment with his parents yet had no room of his own and often slept in the bed in which his grandparents had died. As this remarkably...
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Stanislaw Lem, Author, Michael Kandel, Translator Mariner Books $12 (160p) ISBN 978-0-15-600472-5
A stream-of-consciousness childhood memoir by Polish novelist Lem. (Nov.)
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Stanislaw Lem, Author, Michael Kandel, Translator, Elinor Ford, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-15-171554-1
Lem's latest futuristic satire sends his redoubtable protagonist Ijon Tichy-hero of The Futurological Congress, among other works-to the moon, which has been given over to intelligent, self-evolving war machines in a kind of super-detente. Weapons...
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Stanislaw Lim, Author, Stanislaw Lem, Author, Marc E. Heine, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-15-127580-9
Lem's latest novel takes a stylistic departure from his usual satirical, antic approach. Playing it fairly straight, he details the adventures of the crew of a crash-landed spaceship on an alien planet. The crew, composed of Captain, Engineer,...
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Stanislaw Lem, illus. by Jon J Muth, trans. from the Polish by Michael Kandel. Graphix, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-545-00462-6
Delicately washed panel artwork by Caldecott Honoree Muth (Zen Shorts) underscores the hilarity of late Polish author Lem’s short story, originally published in 1957. Unable to repair his spaceship’s rudder alone, astronaut Ijon Tichy enjoys a “modes
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Stanislaw Lem, trans. from the Polish by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. MIT, $17.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-262-53848-0
Lem’s thought-provoking, reissued 1961 classic explores the questionable utopia that has emerged on a vivid future Earth through the eyes of an astronaut recently returned from the Fomalhaut star system, 23 light years away. Due to time dilation,...
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Stanisław Lem, trans. from the Polish by Michael Kandel. MIT, $17.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-262-53845-9
This deeply philosophical first contact tale, originally published in 1967, showcases the brilliant, often prescient mind of the late Lem (1921–2006). Humanity’s struggle to interpret what may or may not be a message from extraterrestrial...
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Stanislaw Lem, trans. from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. MIT, $39.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-262-04608-4
Nine of these 12 outstanding stories from international sci-fi superstar Lem (1921–2006) make their English-language debut in this treasure trove of a collection. Lem’s prose shines in suspenseful chase sequences (“The Hunt”) and dense philosophical
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