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Lem, Stanislaw - stänˈĭswäfˌ lĕm, 1921–, Polish science-fiction writer. A doctor by training, Lem began his writing career as a poet before turning to the novel. In his many science-fiction works, including Return From the Stars (1961; tr. 1973) and Solaris (1961; tr. 1982), he combines irony and grotesque humor with profound social, psychological

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The Pseudo-Utopian Cosmographies of Stanislaw Lem, in Utopian Studies » Read Now
by Marilyn Jurich. 28 pgs.

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...Pseudo-Utopian Cosmographies of Stanislaw Lem. by MARILYN JURICH...depicted in the science-fictions of Stanislaw Lem. This society is difficult to...anger by the conduct of...
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Hard Science Fiction ("Noise, Information, and Statistics in Stanislaw Lem's The Investigation" begins on p. 164, and "The Cybernetic Paradigms of Stanislaw Lem" begins on p. 177) » Read Now
by George E. Slusser. 288 pgs.

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...Cybernetic Paradigms of Stanislaw Lem Robert M. Philmus...today: James P. Hogan and Stanislaw Lem. Patricia Warrick, in...structure and direction of Stanislaw Lems...
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Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future ("Knowing the Unknown: Heinlein, Lem and the Future" begins on p. 55) » Read Now
by George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, Eric S. Rabkin. 284 pgs.

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...to Come: Science Fiction as Anatomy of the Future Howard V. Hendrix 43 Knowing the Unknown: Heinlein, Lem, and the Future Bradford Lyau 55 Reactionary Utopias Gregory...
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Mindscapes, the Geographies of Imagined Worlds (Chap. 18 "'The Adjutant': Suggestions for Maps in Time and Space from Greene to Johnson to Lem") » Read Now
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin. 308 pgs.

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...William Lomax 242 18. "The Adjutant": Suggestions for Maps in Time and Space from Greene to Johnson to Lem Donald M. Hassler 257 Examples: A Forum 1. The Ultimate...
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The Sublime Simulacra: Repetition, Reversal, and Re-Covery in Lem's Solaris, in Critique » Read Now
by Neil Easterbrook. 18 pgs.

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...Avital Ronell P olish novelist Stanislaw Lem, in "Reflections on My Life...Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983 . Lem, Stanislaw. Microworlds . Ed. Franz...without a Future: An...
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Bridges to Fantasy ("The Unconscious, Fantasy and Science Fiction: Transformations in Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and Lem's Solaris" begins on p. 142) » Read Now
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes. 231 pgs.

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...ALTERNATIVES is a series under the general editorship of Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander which has been established to serve the...
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Oceans, Fear and the Jungian Connection in Solaris and Sphere, in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology » Read Now
by Emma B. Hawkins. 8 pgs.

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...and their works are separated by over twenty years, Stanislaw Lem and Michael Crichton wrote science-fiction novels that...San Diego: Harvest Book, 1961. Ziegfeld, Richard...
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Game Theory in the Third Pentagon: A Study in Strategy and Rationality, in Criticism » Read Now
by Peter Swirski. 28 pgs.

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...7.) In "Chaos and Dialectic: Stanislaw Lem and the Space of Writing," in...Jan. 30, 1984: 88-98. (8.) In Stanislaw Lem, trans. Krystyna Cekalska (Warsaw...to Kafka, see J...
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Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia ("Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem" begins on p. 178) » Read Now
by Patrick Parrinder. 312 pgs.

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With an outspoken and penetrating afterword by Darko Suvin, the contributors to this study convey the essence of cognitive estrangement in relation to science fiction and utopia. All the contributors have been influenced by Suvin's ideas and beliefs.