The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194)
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 891.8/537
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773575073 9780773530461
- LCCN
- PG7158 L392
- LCCN Item number
- A57 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 197 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00223681 (OCoLC)647844524 (CaOOCEL)427985
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Introduction: The Man behind the Giant 12
- 1 Smart Robots 22
- 2 (Un)masking the Agent: Stanislaw Lem’s “The Mask” 31
- 3 Betrization Is the Worst Solution … with the Exception of All Others 56
- 4 A Freudian Peek at Lem’s Fiasco 81
- 5 Summa technologiae – Looking Back and Ahead 90
- 6 Models of Evolution in the Writings of Stanislaw Lem 113
- 7 Skepticism, Realism, Fallibilism: On Lem’s Epistemological Themes 126
- 8 Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire 139
- 9 Lem on Film 162
- 10 Solaris! Solaris. Solaris? 181
- Stanislaw Lem: A Brief Chronological Biography 190
- Bibliography 192
- About the Authors 204
