Foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hunt (Late 1950s)
Rat in the Labyrinth (1956)
Invasion from Aldebaran (1959)
The Friend (1959)
The Invasion (1959)
Darkness and Mildew (1959)
The Hammer (1959)
Lymphater's Formula (1961)
The Journal (1962)
The Truth (1964)
One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Seconds (1976)
An Enigma (1993)
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a writer called "worthy of the Nobel Prize" by the New York Times, was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. His books have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold more than thirty million copies.
"The Truth and Other Stories, a new collection of Lem’s previously
untranslated stories, shows that even the 'scatterings from his
workshop,' as Kim Stanley Robinson puts it in his foreword, could
outstrip a typical writer’s lifetime of creation." —The New York
Times Book Review
"[A] brilliant introduction to Lem’s science fiction. In its pages
one can find him testing out multiple styles and themes, from the
quirky to the seriously philosophical. All its tales are
incubators, growing and playing with ideas that would eventually
become the mainstay of his novels and treatises... More than half a
century ago, Stanislaw Lem gazed into the future and saw, rather
than rockets or ray guns, the evolution of the synthetic mind and
the humans creating it. Thanks to these translations,
English-language readers can share in his vision—long after he
first imagined the internet and its thinking machines." —The Wall
Street Journal
"[Lem’s] tales from the period [the late 1950s]—several of which
have been adeptly translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones in M.I.T.
Press’s new collection The Truth and Other Stories—feature
silicon minds that can’t be distinguished from human ones,
extraterrestrials with an uncanny interest in mimesis, and the idea
that our universe was created by imperfect gods as a sort of joke."
—The New Yorker
"As our world changes faster than we can make sense of it, Lem's
prescient imagination shows the power of science fiction for
peering into the future." —Scientific American
Ask a Question About this Product More... |