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In A Stanislaw Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of wrightings by and about, and interview with, one of the most fascinating writers on the twentieth century.Stanislaw Lem has a large and developed following. Best known for his work in science fiction – his novels and short stories have been translated into over forty languages and have sold over twenty-five million copies – Lem is also a prolific writer of nonfiction monographs. Though not widely available in English, Lem’s extensive studies of literally and contemporary culture, and a philosophy, rhetoric and social theory, have been widely read and anylazed in their original Polish and in German and Russian translations.