Stanislaw Lem

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1970
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Ijon Tichy

Solaris (Jun-1970)
Peace on Earth (Sep-1994)

Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

Star Diaries (Jun-1976)
The Futurological Congress (Nov-1985)

Pirx the Pilot

More Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Oct-1982)
Fiasco (May-1987)
Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Dec-1990)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Solaris

    Ijon Tichy

    Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A...

  • The Invincible

    1973 Mass Market Paperback. Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he ...

  • Cyberiad

    A brilliantly crafted collection of stories from celebrated science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem   Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. Over the course of their adventures in The Cyberiad, they travel to the ...

  • Star Diaries

    Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

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    This collection of short stories centers around one character, space traveller Ijon Tichy. In these stories, Stanislaw Lem''s ""Candide of the Cosmos"" encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the ra...

  • The Chain of Chance

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    A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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  • A Perfect Vacuum

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    This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into on...

  • Return from the Stars

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    Hal Bregg is an astronaut who returns from a space mission in which only 10 biological years have passed for him, while 127 years have elapsed on earth. He finds that the earth has changed beyond recognition, filled with human beings who have been me...

  • Memoirs of a Space Traveler

    In this sequel to The Star Diaries, Ijon Tichy, space traveler of future centuries, discovers that "out there" isn't very different from "down here." Throughout these nine wild adventures, surprise follows witty surprise. Line drawings by the Author....

  • More Tales of Pirx the Pilot

    Pirx the Pilot

    Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis Iribarne, assisted by Magdalen...



  • His Master's Voice

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    A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as t...

  • Imaginary Magnitude

    These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a ...

  • TheCyberiad

  • The Futurological Congress

    Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

    Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critic...

  • One Human Minute

    Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publishers Weekly). In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology -- w...

  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

    The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically...

  • Microworlds

    In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Franz R...

  • Fiasco

    Pirx the Pilot

    The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they ap...

  • Hospital Of The Transfiguration

    It is 1939; the Nazis have occupied Poland. A young doctor disturbed by the fate of Poland joins the staff of an insane asylum only to find a world of pain and absurdity to match that outside. Translated by William Brand. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book...

  • Eden

    A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a c...



  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot

    Pirx the Pilot

    In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderfu...

  • Mortal Engines

    These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem''s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Written in the form of grotesque folk fairy tales, these stories about robot kings,...

  • Peace on Earth

    Ijon Tichy

    Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncoopera...

  • Highcastle

    The author describes his innocent childhood as the son of a doctor in Lvov between the two world wars, during which his most vivid memories include episodes with his gossipy French tutor, the view from a confectionary store, and halvah stands....

  • The Three Electroknights

  • The Seventh Voyage

    Alone in his broken spaceship-with no one there to help him-he could remain trappedin space indefinitely! But soon something strange begins to happen: Tichy's past and future selves appear. And rather than helping one another, they bicker and ...

  • The Truth and Other Stories

    "Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English.

    Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making th...

  • Investigation

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    Avon Books, 1976. Paperback; there were three printings of this edition. Renowned Polish writer Lem's most celebrated work is the novel "Solaris," about a sentient ocean. Here is a brilliant crime investigation novel about the disappearance of corpse...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stanislaw Lem has published 27 books.

Stanislaw Lem does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Truth and Other Stories, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, was published in June 1970.

Yes. Stanislaw Lem has 3 series.
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