Stanislaw Lem

[Otto]

Yes, I read everything from him I could get:
http://www.ottosell.de/soltxt.htm

Otto

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http://www.lem.pl/
http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/vitrifax.html

Books of the Times – John Leonard about Memoirs of a Space Traveler. 
Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, The New York Times Book Review, 
January 22, 1982, Friday, Late City Final Edition Section C; Page 27, 
Column 1, Weekend Desk: "according to Mr. Lem, we are all refrigerators 
and washing machines."

Who is Human, Who is Not? – Mark Rose about Memoirs of a Space Traveler. 
Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, The New York Times Book Review, 
September 19, 1982, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 13, 
Column 2; Book Review Desk.

Lem: Science Fiction’s Passionate Realist – Peter S. Beagle (The Last 
Unicorn) about His Master’s Voice, March 20, 1983, Sunday, Late City 
Final Edition Section 7; Page 7, Column 1; Book Review Desk. A nice 
review by Mr. Beagle who shares my own passion for The Magazine of 
Fantasy and Science Fiction. He puts the emphasis on Mr. Lem’s complaint 
about the poor quality of much Science Fiction and quotes from the 
novel: "If there is progress in a culture, the progress is above all 
conceptual, but literature, the science-fiction variety in particular, 
has nothing to do with that."

Pornograms and Supercomputers – Philip José Farmer about: Imaginary 
Magnitude, The New York Times Book Review, September 2, 1984, Sunday, 
Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 4, Column 1; Book Review Desk. 
Farmer, erfolgreicher SF-Author der Art, die Lem stets eher kritisiert 
hat (The Lovers, Riverworld), findet lobende Worte für Lems Sammlung von 
Vorworten imaginärer Bücher: "where else can you read about Pornograms, 
the new art of taking X-ray photographs of people during group sex?"

If the Sea were Intelligent – Jonathan Culler, Director of the Society 
for the Humanities at Cornell University, and author of On 
Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism about 
Microworlds, March 24, 1985, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; 
Page 28, Column 3; Book Review Desk. "The essays in Microworlds have 
appeared mostly in science fiction magazines, translated by many hands. 
They are uneven and somewhat repetitive, but they reveal a brilliant 
mind with a hearty appetite for science, philosophy and literature. One 
might single out his ‘Reflections on My Life’ and a fascinating 
discussion of Jorge Luis Borges. Despite his great achievements, Mr. Lem 
argues, Mr. Borges is essentially a librarian, turning things around or 
uniting opposites from a past cultural store."

Attack of the Killer Synsects – Gerald Jonas about One Human Minute, The 
New York Times Book Review, February 9, 1986, Sunday, Late City Final 
Edition Section 7; Page 39, Column 1; Book Review Desk. He gives a 
warning right at the beginning of his review: "All books by this Polish 
master of intellectual science fiction should come with a label on the 
cover warning: ‘Handle With Care.’ Mr. Lem is a moralist, an ironist, a 
man of wide erudition (in both science and literature) who has little 
patience with the shortcomings of his fellow man. (…) This book purports 
to give the reader, through reams of computer-compiled statistical 
tables, a picture of ‘what all the people in the world are doing, at the 
same time, in the course of one minute.’"

Cosmic Misunderstandings – Paul Delany, Simon Fraser University in 
Vancouver, British Columbia, about Fiasco, June 7, 1987, Sunday, Late 
City Final Edition Section 7; Page 1, Column 2; Book Review Desk. "Mr. 
Lem has argued that the loss of the sacred in the modern world has 
brought with it a crisis in art, and his novels try to keep alive, in 
space, myths that are dying out on our increasingly secular and 
relativist planet."

Speak, History – Thomas Swick about Highcastle - A Remembrance, 
September 17, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final. "The book ends with an 
account of Mr. Lem's military training. (Here the year is given 
precisely: 1935.) He and his fellow classmates – some of whom, he has 
already told us, were later killed by the Germans – are taught how to 
thrust bayonets, toss grenades, even wield shovels. There is an oddly 
touching description of the hours they spend cleaning their rifles. And 
in this quaint, tragic parody of an army is a hint, perhaps, of the spur 
that persuaded the author to choose the future as a career: ‘During the 
three years of my military training,’ he writes, ‘there was no mention 
made, not once, of the existence of tanks.’"
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KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> Well, I fear, Lem is one of the authors: "Everybody knows him, no one 
> read him". And he was a dissident in the Socialist world. And so he sold 
> 27 million books in the whole world. Bud did anybody read him, really, 
> except perhaps "Solaris"? Hmmmmmmmmmm...
>  
> kwp

	

	
		
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