Stanislaw Lem

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The Truth and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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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 Journal Discover the full range of Stanislaw Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas-and his sardonic approach to human nature-in this unforgettable collection of 12 short stories. In "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive. "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes-until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing. In "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam . . . Of these 12 science fiction short stories, only 3 have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Stanislaw Lem since the late 1980s. Featuring scathing humor, artificial intelligences, insane theories of cosmology and evolution, and so much more, The Truth and Other Stories is a multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any science fiction reader could wish for.

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Autor

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006), a writer called "worthy of the Nobel Prize" by the New York Times, was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. His books have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold more than thirty million copies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262366656
• Artikelnr.: 60752855

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"The Truth and Other Stories, a new collection of Lem s previously untranslated stories, shows that even the 'scatterings from his workshop,' as Kim Stanley Robinson puts it in his foreword, could outstrip a typical writer s lifetime of creation." The New York Times Book Review

"[A] brilliant introduction to Lem s science fiction. In its pages one can find him testing out multiple styles and themes, from the quirky to the seriously philosophical. All its tales are incubators, growing and playing with ideas that would eventually become the mainstay of his novels and treatises... More than half a century ago, Stanislaw Lem gazed into the future and saw, rather than rockets or ray guns, the evolution of the synthetic mind and the

humans creating it. Thanks to these translations, English-language readers can share in his vision long after he first imagined the internet and its thinking machines." The Wall Street Journal

"[Lem s] tales from the period [the late 1950s] several of which have been adeptly translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones in M.I.T. Press s new collection The Truth and Other Stories feature silicon minds that can t be distinguished from human ones, extraterrestrials with an uncanny interest in mimesis, and the idea that our universe was created by imperfect gods as a sort of joke." The New Yorker

"As our world changes faster than we can make sense of it, Lem's prescient imagination shows the power of science fiction for peering into the future." Scientific American

"The Truth and Other Stories, a new collection of Lem s previously untranslated stories, shows that even the 'scatterings from his workshop,' as Kim Stanley Robinson puts it in his foreword, could outstrip a typical writer s lifetime of creation." The New York Times Book Review

"[A] brilliant introduction to Lem s science fiction. In its pages one can find him testing out multiple styles and themes, from the quirky to the seriously philosophical. All its tales are incubators, growing and playing with ideas that would eventually become the mainstay of his novels and treatises... More than half a century ago, Stanislaw Lem gazed into the future and saw, rather than rockets or ray guns, the evolution of the

synthetic mind and the humans creating it. Thanks to these translations, English-language readers can share in his vision long after he first imagined the internet and its thinking machines." The Wall Street Journal

"[Lem s] tales from the period [the late 1950s] several of which have been adeptly translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones in M.I.T. Press s new collection The Truth and Other Stories feature silicon minds that can t be distinguished from human ones, extraterrestrials with an uncanny interest in mimesis, and the idea that our universe was created by imperfect gods as a sort of joke." The New Yorker

"As our world changes faster than we can make sense of it, Lem's prescient imagination shows the power of science fiction for peering into the future." Scientific American