feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes

God bless the little Lem!

To honor the author of "Solaris" a Spanish lady, a renowned publisher, has just named her newborn child Lem.

Asteroid 3836 Lem (1979 SR9) is a main belt asteroid discovered by a Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh in 1979. It was named after Stanisław Lem. You can see its orbit diagram at a NASA page.

JPL Small-Body Database Browser

Lightning-fast systems make lightning-fast mistakes.

"Weapon Systems of The Twenty First Century or The Upside-down Evolution"

The Star Diaries

The first Polish satellite, named "Lem", should be launched in the second half of 2012.

Complex Chinese language edition of "Solaris" by Muses Publishing House.

Lem is credited with foreseeing the development of nano-technology, virtual reality (in "Summa Technologiae") and eBooks (in "Return from the Stars"). His ideas can be identified in many areas of popular culture (The Sims computer game, and the red and blue pills of The Matrix, to name but two).

Lemistry – A Celebration of Stanislaw LemWe at Comma are very excited about our new Lemistry anthology. This is a book celebrating the hugely influential Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem. It brings rare and previously un-translated stories to English readers for the first time and also features specially commissioned stories by a host of lauded contemporary writers (including Toby Litt, Brian Aldiss, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Adam Marek) along with essays on Lem’s scientific prescience by Prof Steve Furber and the cult robotics pioneer Prof Hod Lipson.

There is a the step of hewing urns of stone and the step of raising the dead, and the step of extinguishing suns - and there are no insurmountable obstacles between these steps.

The Star Diaries

My final allegory is a fable, in which a traveler finds a sign at a crossroads: "Turn left and forfeit your head. Turn right and perish. There is no turning back."
That is your destiny...

Golem IV

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

One Human Minute

Killing time is like killing a wife or a child. For me no substance is more precious than time.

letters to Michael Kandel

a human being must eat, drink and clothe himself; and the rest is madness.

"Return from the Stars"

THE CONGRESS - Ari Folman's new film based on Lem's THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS

Waltz With Bashir's Folman presents new film at Cartoon Movie | News | Screen Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman (pictured) will present his latest project The Congress at the twelfth edition of Cartoon Movie, which will be held in Lyon on March 3 - 5.

the interview with Will Right, designer of SimCity: Fictional character he identifies with: Klapaucius. He is a character in the science fiction of a Polish writer named Stanislaw Lem. The character was a robot who went around inventing things to solve people’s problems.

Domains - Will Wright - SimCity Living - Interview - NYTimes.com Will Wright, designer of video games, including Spore and the best-selling PC game series ever, The Sims, lives in a 5,000-square-foot, two-story contemporary home in the Oakland Hills.