Polish Science Fiction Writers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Stanis aw Lem, Andrzej Sapkowski, Adam Wi niewski-Snerg, Janusz Zajdel, Jerzy u awski, Antoni Lange, Jacek Dukaj, Andrzej Ziemia ski, Rafa A. Ziemkiewicz, Andrzej Pilipiuk, Tomasz Ko odziejczak, Tomasz Pacy ski, Adam Hollanek, Antonina Liedtke, Robert J. Szmidt, Jacek Sawaszkiewicz, Maciej Parowski, Marek Baraniecki, Marek Huberath, Maria Julia Zaleska, Jaros aw Grz dowicz, Konrad T. Lewandowski, Eugeniusz D bski, Wojciech Orli ski, Marcin Wolski, Marek Oramus, Wojciech widziniewski, Rafa Kosik, Ryszard G owacki, Andrzej Zimniak. Excerpt: Stanis aw Lem (Polish pronunciation: 12 September 1921 - 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has been made into a feature film three times. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon said that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult due to passages with elaborate word formation, alien or robotic poetry, and puns. Multiple translated versions of his works exist. Lem was born in 1921 in Lw w, Poland (now Ukraine). He was the son of Sabina Woller and Samuel Lem, a wealthy laryngologist and former physician in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Though raised a Roman Catholic, he later became an atheist "for moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put togethe...