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

    A space cruiser encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines in this classic science fiction novel with echoes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne!“A giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov...

  • Cyberiad

    “Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines.” -- The New York Times Book Review These are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as “constructors,” w...

  • 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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    An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prize"winning author of Solaris. Vacation is supposed to be relaxing. But while traveling in Naples, several American tourists die in a most macabre and unusual w...

  • A Perfect Vacuum

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    Ingenious essays from “a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory” (The New York Times Book Review). In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outsi...

  • Return from the Stars

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    An astronaut returns to Earth after a 10-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes in science fiction novel by the Solaris author, whose works “make our weary universe seem pale and undistinguished by comparison” (The Washington ...

  • Memoirs of a Space Traveler

    Meet Ijon Tichy -- a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and other puzzling phenomena -- in this collection from a science fiction legend. Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon ...

  • 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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    Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris. “The universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanis,aw Lem.” ...

  • 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

    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. “Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.” -- The Paris Review   Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathin...

  • 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 absurdly brilliant far-future satire from “the Borges of scientific culture” (Time).   The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight -- papyralysis -- has obliterated much of the planet’s written history. Fortunately, these rare...

  • Microworlds

    The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for whi...

  • Fiasco

    Pirx the Pilot

    “A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel” from the Kafka Prize"winning author of Solaris (The New York Times). The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth’s excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first ...

  • Hospital Of The Transfiguration

    An early realist novel by Stanis,aw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanis,aw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young do...

  • Eden

    From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” (Kirkus Reviews). Six explorers -- the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cybernetici...



  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot

    Pirx the Pilot

    Brilliant stories of a bumbling astronaut, and the human desire to discover the unknown, by the much-loved author of Solaris. Set in the not-too-distant future, when space flight has evolved to the point where humanity is ready to colonize the solar ...

  • 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

    Robot armies, an arms race in space, and a brain at war with itself add up to “a futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (The Boston Phoenix).  Anxious to avoid a war that would destroy the entire planet, the major powers of Earth hav...

  • Highcastle

    A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanis,aw Lem.With Highcastle, Stanis,aw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful -- “I was a monster,” he o...

  • 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

    Experience a sci-fi master at his finest in this collection of 12 science fiction short stories from 1956 to 1993 -- many now presented in English for the very first time! “A brilliant introduction to Lem’s science fiction.” -- Wall Street J...

  • Investigation

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    An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize"winning author. The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies are disappearing. The ini...

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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