Stanislaw Lem

Sono stato a lungo indeciso se pubblicare un articolo sul romanzo Solaris, scritto da Stanislaw Lem nel 1961. Intanto perché qua e là mi è già capitato di parlarne, anche diffusamente; ma soprattutto perché, onestamente, cosa potrei aggiungere che non sia già stato scritto e spiegato? Però… Solaris è per…

After my grandmother died, one of the first things I thought about was how much I wanted to talk to her. I desperately wanted to hear her voice when she answered the phone, I even missed the distinctive style in which she texted me, with her own unique tone, graceful…

October 12th His Master's Voice "And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other…www.goodreads.com The absurdity of people who think that we (as a human race) might have any ability to establish contact with other life forms is on the perfect display in this book. I am going now through a binge reading of Stanislaw Lem’s works and my mind is working…

Рис Хьюз в старом (1998), но классическом и по сей день актуальном очерке творчества Баррингтона Бэйли, называет того самым недооцененным из незаслуженно забытых британских авторов со времен Дэвида Массона. И замечает о его Дзен-пушке, вероятно, лучшем романе за писательскую карьеру Бэйли, если не во всей британской новой космоопере: Среди поздних…

Stanisław Lem’s Solaris says more about our planet’s crisis than a lot of environmental writing. At the unreachable heart of Stanisław Lem’s masterpiece Solaris lies a distant, ocean-wrapped planet orbiting a pair of suns in the region of Aquarius. Initially a ‘modest item’ among the hundreds of planets identified annually…

Back in 1997, I wrote a few web pages about Stanislaw Lem, with some reviews of his books, including his delightful collection of short stories “The Cyberiad”. Inspired by his fictitious criticism of non-existent books, I wrote some fictitious home pages in the first person of his brilliant but braggadocios…

—Даже в Лэнсинге надобности вприпрыжку бежать навстречу смерти нет, Рука Накаморэ, — отвечал премьер-министр, поглядывая на винтовку Рауля. — И особенно в Лэнсинге, — сказала Пламенная Шива. — Мы веруем в диалектический материализм, Рука Накаморэ. Мы реалисты. По крайней мере, должны такими быть. Джоан Виндж, Изгнанники Небесного Пояса Много на…

Если вам случилось после карантиновирусной или иной депрессии выпутаться из ловушки количественного смягчения бюджета и завербоваться в управляющие Вселенной санитары, то вы всегда вправе рассчитывать на помощь русского артхауса в умиротворении пациентов, страдающих хронической бессонницей.

A look into Anagram’s new sci-fi audio piece about plant communication and the end of our species based on real events. [Below is a transcript adapted from the launch presentation of Messages to a Post Human Earth, as part of the IDFA DocLab’s do {not} touch: Symbiotic Bodies event in…