J. Madison Davis. Stanislaw Lem. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990. ix+116. $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paper. There is a popular Polish maxim: na bezrybiu i rak ryba, which might be paraphrased as ...

Lem grew up in Lviv, which was the third largest city in the Second Polish Republic (right after Warsaw and Łódź). It was the Polish capital of modernity and a refuge of free thought in the times of ...

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Cannes-lauded 1972 film ‘Solaris’, based on Stanisław Lem’s novel of the same name, is considered a masterpiece. But here’s the paradox: the Polish author felt ... Stanisław Lem’s ...