open
Upgrade to a better browser, please.

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books

Stanislaw Lem

Added By: gallyangel
Last Updated: gallyangel

Stanislaw Lem

Purchase this book through IndieBound.org Purchase this book from Amazon.com Purchase this book from Amazon.co.uk
Author: J. Madison Davis
Publisher: Starmont House, 1991
Series: Starmont Reader's Guide: Book 32
Book Type: Non-Fiction
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:
Awards:  
Lists:
Links:
Avg Member Rating:
(0 reads / 0 ratings)




Synopsis

Stanislaw Lem is considered by many critics to be the world's greatest living science fiction writer (as of 1991) and has been called a literary movement in himself. In Poland and the Soviet Union paper quotas have caused a black market for his newest books and some of his novels are required reading in schools. In the West his audience has steadily grown after Lem first created major attention with Solaris (1961) and has followed it with provocative and inventive short stories and novels that exhibit so many talents that he almost seems like a consortium of Polish writers.

In this volume, J. Madison Davis, a novelist and critic, ranges over the entire body of Lem's fiction available in English from adventure to humor to philosophy to postmodernist fictions, illuminating the biography, the major themes, and the amazing phenomenon of a writer who in his entire life has traveled only a few hundred miles from his birthplace and yet has explored the universe.


Excerpt

No excerpt currently exists for this novel.


Reviews

There are currently no reviews for this novel. Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above.


Images

No alternate cover images currently exist for this novel.