Stanislaw Lem

A fellow Medium Writer, Marcin Wichary, translates a Stanislaw Lem Short Story — discusses the translation process

…from Polish to English.

Fascinating stuff!

‘Vacío perfecto’ de Stanislaw Lem: morada existencial

O ethos da distopia segundo Stanislaw Lem

“Comparado à maioria dos escritores de ficção científica, o pensamento de Lem era…

Translating a Stanisław Lem story

This is a backstory of why I translated Stanisław Lem’s short story

One hundred and thirty-seven seconds

A short story by Stanisław Lem published in 1976, translated from Polish in 2015 by Marcin Wichary

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored

The fictional machine that generated poems, and the real people who had to translate them

One of the most famous part of Stanisław Lem’s The Cyberiad is the story of one of the many colourful…

They Don’t Come By One

I want to share with you this poem by Sterling Brown:

Pericalypsis

Una babelica pseudo-recensione di “Vuoto assoluto” di Stanislaw Lem

“One hundred and thirty-seven seconds”: The translation process

Translators… are going to fail. No matter what you do, you’re not going to succeed. People may like what you do, but they like something else that isn’t exactly what you really set out to do. ¶ It’s… quixotic.

On Common Sense and Futurism

Inspired by But Does It Float

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“And common sense? It is that which is understood by an intelligence using senses no different from those of a baboon. Such an intelligence wishes to know the world in terms…