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4 unusual facts about Stanisław Lem


Louis Iribarne

Stanisław Lem, The Chain of Chance, translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1975.

Louis Iribarne is a translator, into English, of works by Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Lem, Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (the novel, Insatiability).

Oxyliquit

Oxyliquit explosive was prepared ad hoc from sugar and an oxygen bottle to blast a hole in a collapsed cave in Stanisław Lem's 1951 novel Astronauts.

Sepulcidae

It was named by his colleague and a science-fiction author Kirill Eskov after fictional entities called sepulki, found in Stanisław Lem's The Star Diaries and Observation on the Spot.


Juan J. Orosa

His works are thrillers that show a sense of irony that evokes Stanisław Lem and Boris Vian.

Maxwell's demon

The demon is mentioned several times in The Cyberiad, a series of short stories by the noted science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.

Odd John

Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occurs in the works of Stanisław Lem, Frank Herbert, Wilmar Shiras, Robert Heinlein and Vernor Vinge, among others.

The Chain of Chance

The Chain of Chance (original Polish title: Katar, literally, "Rhinitis") is a science fiction/detective novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem, published in 1975.

Tygodnik Powszechny

Columnists have included prominent clerics, such as Karol Wojtyła (who became Pope John Paul II), academics and poets, journalists and other writers, including Władysław Bartoszewski, Jerzy Zawieyski, Jacek Woźniakowski, Stefan Wilkanowicz, Adam Szostkiewicz, Leszek Kołakowski, Stanisław Lem, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz Kudliński, and Czesław Zgorzelski.


see also

Zajdel

Janusz Zajdel (1938–1985), Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem

Zit

Gentle zits, fictional objects mentioned in a Stanisław Lem story