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Book SynopsisExamines the social and cultural significance of technology and science in the work of the Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include "Return from the Stars" and "Solaris". This collection also includes "Smart Robots," an essay by Lem.
Trade Review"This is another plank in the development of the analysis of popular culture and its impact on society. It is very fine indeed. Lem is a contemporary Polish genius, who has much to say to the intelligentsia and Swirski has been careful to find representative scholars of a wide swathe of his contributions. This is laudable, for it opens doors to much data of which few outside of Poland would be aware." Earle Waugh, Dept of History & Classics, University of Alberta "This collection aims to serve readers that love science fiction for its creative application of scientific, philosophical, and religious thought to the imagining of new worlds that shed light on the world in which those readers live. All eight essays deliver fresh material on Lem's works. The time it took me to read this collection was personally well spent." Ian Lancashire, Dept of English, University of Toronto
Table of ContentsContributors include Peter Butko (Southern Mississippi), Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr (DePauw), Katherine Hayles (California at Los Angeles), Jerzy Jarzebski (Jagiellonian, University Cracow), Michael Kandel (Modern Language Association), Stanislaw Lem, Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Krzysztof Loska (Jagiellonian University), and Peter Swirski (Hong Kong).
