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Stanislaw Lem Books In Order

From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy Books In Publication Order

  1. The Star Diaries aka Memoirs of a Space Traveler (1957)
  2. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961)
  3. The Futurological Congress (1971)
  4. Peace on Earth (1987)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Hospital of the Transfiguration (1955)
  2. The Investigation (1958)
  3. Eden (1959)
  4. Return from the Stars (1961)
  5. Solaris (1961)
  6. The Invincible (1964)
  7. Highcastle (1966)
  8. His Master’s Voice (1968)
  9. Imaginary Magnitude (1973)
  10. The Chain of Chance (1976)
  11. Fiasco (1986)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Seventh Voyage (2019)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1961)
  2. Mortal Engines (1964)
  3. The Cyberiad (1965)
  4. More Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1968)
  5. A Perfect Vacuum (1971)
  6. The Cosmic Carnival (1981)
  7. One Human Minute (1986)
  8. The Three Electroknights (2018)
  9. The Truth and Other Stories (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Dialogues (1957)
  2. Summa Technologiae (1964)
  3. Microworlds (1984)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991)
  2. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)

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Stanislaw Lem Books Overview

The Star Diaries aka Memoirs of a Space Traveler

In this sequel to The Star Diaries, Ijon Tichy, space traveler of future centuries, discovers that ‘out there’ isn’t very different from ‘down here.’ Throughout these nine wild adventures, surprise follows witty surprise. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka Ziemianek. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight papyralysis has obliterated much of the planet’s written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.

The Futurological Congress

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.

Peace on Earth

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides. Translated by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Hospital of the Transfiguration

It is 1939; the Na*zis have occupied Poland. A young doctor disturbed by the fate of Poland joins the staff of an insane asylum only to find a world of pain and absurdity to match that outside. Translated by William Brand. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Investigation

A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing and apparently resurrected bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.

Eden

A six man crew crash lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew’s attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Return from the Stars

Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on earth. He finds that the earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been medically neutralized. How does an astronaut join a civilization that shuns risk? Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Solaris

When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the scientific research station hovering high above the surface of Solaris, he finds the place deserted except for two scientists, who have been driven mad by some unknown horror. The researchers had been trying to investigate the ocean planet, and probe the secrets of its alien lifeforms. But their clumsy, aggressive approach has provoked a terrifying response from the ocean, which is now confronting them with their most painful repressed thoughts and memories in human form. Kris is faced with the manifestation of his long dead wife, Rheya, and his guilt over her suicide, but whatever is tormenting the other scientists appears to be much worse…
Solaris was first published in 1961 and is a classic of modern science fiction, twice adapted for film by Tarkovsky in 1972 and Steven Soderbergh in 2002. Stanislaw Lem’s original novel combines a gripping space thriller with a powerful debate about guilt and the human condition.

Highcastle

The author describes his innocent childhood as the son of a doctor in Lvov between the two world wars, during which his most vivid memories include episodes with his gossipy French tutor, the view from a confectionary store, and halvah stands.

His Master’s Voice

A witty and inventive satire of ‘men of science’ and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. ‘I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament…
we as the posthumous heirs of Them…
‘A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Imaginary Magnitude

These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty first century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X rays to create ‘po*rnograms,’ and analyzing computer generated literature through the science of ‘bitistics.’ ‘Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes’ New York Times Book Review. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Chain of Chance

A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Fiasco

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Tales of Pirx the Pilot

In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Mortal Engines

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales Wall Street Journal. Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.

The Cyberiad

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. The most completely successful of his books…
here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe Boston Globe. Illustrations by Daniel Mr z. Translated by Michael Kandel.

More Tales of Pirx the Pilot

Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis Iribarne, assisted by Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

A Perfect Vacuum

.1 a’In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism’s ‘games for games’ sake’ ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results.’ BOOK JACKET. ‘Most of the ‘reviews’ target the postmodern infatuation with antinarratives by lampooning their self indulgence and exploiting their mannerisms. Lem exposes the limits of postmodern fiction, showing how its studious self consciousness frequently conceals intellectual paucity. Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackle or create pastiches of the French new novel, James Joyce, po*rnography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers.’ BOOK J

One Human Minute

Contains three essays ‘One Human Minute,’ ‘The Upside Down Revolution ,’ and ‘The World as Cataclysm’ from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

Microworlds

In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner. Translated by Rottensteiner and others. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Zipes brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, giving readers a sense of the history of the genre and its evolution. Includes more than 60 tales by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Voltaire, Goethe, Hawthorne, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, and more. Illustrated.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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