Correspondence of Stanisław Lem

Selected correspondence of Stanisław Lem has been published in several books.

* 2021: Lem w PRL-u [pl], selection of Lem's letters from 1951-1990, prepared and commented by Wojciech Orliński.[1][2]
* 2018: Boli tylko, gdy się śmieję... [pl] Listy i rozmowy (It Only Hurts When I Laugh[3]... Letters and Conversations) is a selected correspondence between Stanisław Lem, the poet Ewa Lipska, and Lem's son, Tomasz Lem, as well as records of conversations between Lem and Lipska in early 2000s.[4]
* 2013: Sława i Fortuna [pl], ISBN 978-83-0804934-1, 736pp, is a selection of Stanisław Lem's letters to his translator Michael Kandel during 1972–1987. It includes introduction by Jerzy Jarzębski and comments by Maciej Urbanowski.[5][6]
* 2011: Stanisław Lem, Sławomir Mrożek, Listy [pl] (Letters), ISBN 978-83-08-04730-9, is a selection of correspondence between Lem and Mrożek from 1956 to 1978.[7]
* 2002: Listy albo opór materii [pl] (Letters or Resistance of Matter) is a collection of letters written by Stanisław Lem from 1955 to 1988. The selection was carried out by Jerzy Jarzębski, who also wrote the afterword. The book includes brief biographical notes about the addressees and an index of names. The collection contains the author's correspondence with various institutions of the Polish People's Republic and letters written to friends, including: Helena Eilstein, Antoni Słonimski, Wiktor Woroszylski, Jerzy Jarzębski, Daniel Mróz, Szymon Kobyliński, Michael Kandel, and biophysicist prof. Władysław Kapuściński[8]
* 2024: I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze [pl] (literally "And say that my glory comes from my friends"), a selection of the 1972-1984 correspondence between Lem and Ursula K. Le Guin, translated from English by Lems's son Tomasz Lem.[9] The title comes from the line "And say my glory was I had such friends" by William Butler Yeats from his poem "The Municipal Gallery Revisited".

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1. ^ Tomasz Fiałkowski, Lem wali w klawisze. Potrafił podanie do urzędu zmienić w arcydzieło
2. ^ Anna Michalik, Wojciech Orliński – „Lem w PRL-u, czyli nieco prawdy w zwiększonej objętości” – recenzja i ocena
3. ^ Note: The title refers to the joke "It Only Hurts When I Laugh".
4. ^ Boli tylko, gdy się śmieję... Listy i rozmowy, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2018, hardcover: ISBN 978-83-08-06555-6
5. ^ "SŁAWA I FORTUNA. LISTY DO MICHAELA KANDLA", at Lems's official website
6. ^ Wojciech Zemek, "Listy a literatura: korespondencja Stanisława Lema z Michaelem Kandlem" [Letters vs literature: Stanislaw Lem's correspondence with Michael Kandel], master's thesis, Kraków 2009
7. ^ Opublikowanie listów Stanisława Lema i Sławomira Mrożka to wydarzenie kulturalne najwyższej rangi, culture.pl
8. ^ Wojciech Orliński, Co to są sepulki? 2007, section "Listy albo opór materii"
9. ^ Stanisław Lem i Ursula K. Le Guin. Skazani na szmirę?

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Works by Stanisław Lem

Novels|

* The Man from Mars (1946)
* Time Not Lost
* Hospital of the Transfiguration (1948)
* The Astronauts (1951)
* The Magellanic Cloud (1955)
* The Investigation (1959)
* Eden (1959)
* Return from the Stars (1961)
* Solaris (1961)
* Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961)
* The Invincible (1964)
* Highcastle (1966)
* His Master's Voice (1968)
* The Futurological Congress (1971)
* Professor A. Dońda (1973)
* The Chain of Chance (1975)
* Golem XIV (1981)
* Observation on the Spot (1982)
* Fiasco (1986)
* Peace on Earth (1987)

Short stories|

* "End of the World at Eight O'Clock" (1947)
* The Star Diaries (1957)
* "The Hunt " (1950s)
* "Terminus" (1961)
* "Lymphater's Formula" (1961)
* Fables for Robots (1964)
* The Cyberiad (1965)
* Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1966)
* "The Mask" (1974)

Major essays|

* Dialogs (1957)
* Summa Technologiae (1964)
* The Philosophy of Chance (1968)
* Science Fiction and Futurology (1970)
* Microworlds (1984)

Pseudepigraphy|

* A Perfect Vacuum (1971)
* Imaginary Magnitude (1973)
* One Human Minute (1986)

Plays|

* Korzenie (1940s)
* Do You Exist, Mr. Jones? (1955)
* Faithful Robot (1961)

Adaptations|

| Films|

* The Silent Star (1960)
* Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
* Solaris (1968)
* Roly Poly (1968)
* Solaris (1972)
* Hospital of the Transfiguration (1978)
* Inquest of Pilot Pirx (1979)
* Victim of the Brain (1988)
* Solaris (2002)
* 1 (2009)
* Maska (2010)
* The Congress (2013)
* His Master's Voice (2018)

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TV|

* The Adventures of Pirx (1973)
* Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot (2007)
* Fear of a Bot Planet (1999)
* End of the World at Eight O'Clock (2015)

Other|

* Cyberiada (opera)
* Solaris (2019 play)
* The Invincible (video game) (2023)

Characters|

* Ijon Tichy
* Pilot Pirx
* Professor Tarantoga
* Mad scientists
* A. Dońda, A. Lymphater
* Lem's robots
* Trurl and Klapaucius, Terminus

Lemology|

| People|

* Stanisław Bereś
* Konstantin Dushenko
* Michael Kandel
* Daniel Mróz
* Wojciech Orliński
* Franz Rottensteiner
* Peter Swirski

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Works|

* A Stanislaw Lem Reader
* Correspondence of Lem
* Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem

Other|

* Honors bestowed on Lem
* Neologisms of Stanisław Lem
* Sepulka
* Lem's Law
* Works about Lem
* Year of Lem

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