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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the aut…
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science · Polish science fiction author and futurologist (1921–2006) · philosopher · essayist · satirist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · futurist · writer · poet · physician · researcher · also Stanisław Lem, Stanislav Lem, Lem
Born 12 September 1921 · Died 27 March 2006 · Q6530
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2023· 1 entry
2021· 4 entries
culture.pl: Peace on Earth – Stanisław Lem
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culture.pl: The Man From Mars – Stanisław Lem
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Wall Street Journal: Two by Stanisław Lem: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
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The Times of Israel: Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Stanisław Lem
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2016· 1 entry
New Scientist: Stanisław Lem: The man with the future inside him
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2013· 2 entries
The Israeli–Polish co-production The Congress was released, inspired by Lem's novel The Futurological Congress
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As part of the Bright-star Target Explorer (BRITE) programme
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Whole-Genome Sequencing and Social-Network Analysis of a Tuberculosis Outbreak” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 640 times.
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2006· 17 entries
Died 2006-03-27.
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“Pragniesz żyć, to jest posiadać przyszłość, która staje się teraźniejszością, do tego bowiem sprowadza się przecież życie.”
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“Nauka nie zajmuje się takimi własnościami bytu, do których należy śmieszność. Nauka objaśnia świat, ale pogodzić z nim może jedynie sztuka.”
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“Opis: odpowiedź Wucha na deklarację Automateusza chęci wrzucenia go do morza.”
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“Jam jest robot hartowany,zdalnie prądem sterowany,nitowany z każdej strony,wyklepany, uzwojony,stańcie nit przy nicie,a zaraz ujrzycieczworgiem swych żeliwnych gałek,jaki ze mnie zbrojny śmiałek,jak lśni mój stalowy duch,naprzeciw żeliwnych dwóch,natężajcie cewki,bo to nie przelewki,a jeśli nie usłuchacie,elektryczne życie dacie!”
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“Międzynarodowe Biuro Regulacji Klimatów przeszło od skromnych prób lokalnej zmiany pogody (…) do frontowego ataku na głównego wroga ludzkości. Był nim mróz, od setek milionów lat usadowiony wokół biegunów planety. Wieczne lody (…) miały raz na zawsze zniknąć. Dla osiągnięcia tego celu należało ogrzać olbrzymie obszary oceanu i lądów, stopić tysiące kilometrów sześciennych lodu…”
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“Starożytni mawiali: 'mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur'. Świat łaknie oszustw, więc jest oszukiwany.”
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“HYLAS: Uważasz zatem, że maszyny będą w przyszłości wyprzedzać człowieka we wszystkich dziedzinach?FILONOUS: Dobryś sobie. Już dziś go wyprzedzają. Byle elektryczna maszyna do liczenia rozwiąże zadanie, któremu przez całe życie nie podoła najlepszy matematyk.”
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Stanisław Lem died from a heart failure in the hospital of the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków on 27 March 2006 at the age of 84.
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“Kupiec niewolników, sortując towar, krzepkich mężów przeznaczał do kopalni, niewiasty do kuchni, a młodzież nie znającą ortografii na rozkurz.”
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“Jurek, zrozumiawszy opacznie polecenie nauczyciela, zamiast wędki wziął łom, a zamiast siatki siekierę. Gdy więc przyszło do łapania owadów, Jurek, uganiający się za motylami z siekierą, napotkał duże trudności i poślizgnąwszy się na szyszce, uderzył się obuchem w czoło.”
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“Jak wiadomo, padalce nie szybują w przestworzach, ponieważ im na tym nie zależy.”
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“Do naszych przyjaciół domowych należą także pchły i wszy, a na południu skorpiony, których ukąszenie powoduje siność twarzy, wytrzeszcz, ślinotok oraz agonię, której towarzyszy przeciągłe charczenie.”
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“Ludzie zbudują, mimo wszystkie zawody, klęski i tragiczne omyłki, lepszy świat. Gdybyśmy nie mieli działać z tą myślą, utracilibyśmy wiarę w człowieka i jego możliwości, a wtedy lepiej byłoby nie żyć, przyjacielu.”
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“Na szczyt można wejść, ale wszystkie drogi ze szczytu prowadzą w dół!”
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“Opis: pierwsze zdania dzieł literackich.”
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“Taki, jaki jesteś, nie możesz jednak doświadczyć naraz więcej aniżeli jednego miejsca spośród tych, które wymieniłem i milionów, jakie przemilczałem.”
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2005· 2 entries
Won Golden Medal for Merit to Culture (2005).
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Lem expressed his disappointment with the genre of science fiction, and his general pessimism regarding technical progress
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2003· 4 entries
Awarded Geffen Award (2003).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Kraków (2003).
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“W roku 2003 zakończone zostało częściowe przelewanie Morza Śródziemnego w głąb Sahary i gibraltarskie elektrownie wodne dały po raz pierwszy prąd do sieci północnoafrykańskiej. Wiele już lat minęło od upadku ostatniego państwa kapitalistycznego…”
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Published “Melanopsin and rod–cone photoreceptive systems account for all major accessory visual functions in mice” in Nature — cited 987 times.
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2002· 1 entry
As Tako rzecze… Lem (Thus spoke
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Kraków Book of the Month (1999).
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Franz Rottensteiner, Lem's former agent abroad, had this to say about Lem's reception on international markets:
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic) (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Polish PEN Club Award Jan Parandowski (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
As Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem (Conversations with Stanisław Lem)
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
As of 1984, Lem's writing pattern was to get up a short time before five in the morning and start writing soon after; Lem would write for five or six hours before taking a break.
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1982· 2 entries
With martial law in Poland declared, Lem moved to West Berlin, where he became a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
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With the onset of the martial law in Poland, Lem moved to Berlin for studies; between 1983 and 1988, he lived in Vienna
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Wrocław University of Science and Technology (1981).
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“), in A Perfect Vacuum (1971), tr. Michael Kandel (1978) Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. The Star Diaries (1976) The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes. The Star Diaries (1976) Not only does God play dice with the world—He does not let us see what He has rolled. Imaginary Magnitude”
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1980· 1 entry
Published another set of reviews of non-existent works, Provocation
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Work Flag Order, 2nd class (1979).
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Awarded Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for The Chain of Chance (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Seiun Awards (1977).
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1976· 2 entries
Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world
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Lem published two works: "The Mask" and The Chain of Chance
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1973· 1 entry
A similar work, Imaginary Magnitude, was published
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1972· 1 entry
And when Dick felt monetarily short-changed by the publisher, he held Lem personally responsible (see Microworlds)
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1970).
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1968· 3 entries
By His Master's Voice and Tales of Pirx the Pilot
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Their only child, Tomasz (born 1968), who graduated with a degree in physics from Princeton University, has written Awantury na tle powszechnego ciążenia (Tantrums on the Background of the Universal Gravitation), a memoir which contains numerous personal details about Lem.
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By Russian director Boris Nirenburg, a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky—which won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972—and an American film in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh
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1964· 1 entry
Lem published a large work on the border of philosophy and sociology of science and futurology, Summa Technologiae, as well as a novel, The Invincible
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1961· 1 entry
“Study Guide for Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961)”
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1959).
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1957· 1 entry
Published his first non-fiction, philosophical book, Dialogs, as well as a science fiction anthology, The Star Diaries, collecting short stories about one of his most popular characters, Ijon Tichy
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Gold Cross of Merit (1955).
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As a part of the trilogy Czas nieutracony (Time Not Lost)
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1954· 1 entry
Published a short story collection, Sezam i inne opowiadania [Sesame and Other Stories]
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1953· 1 entry
Lem met radiology student Barbara Leśniak, whom he married in a civil ceremony the same year
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1951· 1 entry
Published his first book, The Astronauts
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1946· 1 entry
With a number of publications in different genres, including poetry, as well as his first science fiction novel, The Man from Mars, serialized in Nowy Świat Przygód (New World of Adventures)
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1945· 1 entry
Lwów was annexed into the Soviet Ukraine, and the family, along with many other Polish citizens, was resettled to Kraków, where Lem, at his father's insistence, took up medical studies at the Jagiellonian University
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1941· 1 entry
Studied at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (1939–1941).
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1921· 2 entries
Born 1921-09-12.
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In Lwów, interwar Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)
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