Stanislaw Lem died. - Aircraft of World War II

v2 · 03-28-2006, 11:22 AM

Born in Lwow in 1921, Lem had lived in Cracow since 1946. He died there on March 27, 2006.
He was the Polish writer who was the most popular and the most frequently published abroad. A classic of science fiction, Lem was nevertheless atypical of the writers in that genre - perhaps because he chose it less than freely in the 1940s, when the political oppression of Stalinism made it impossible for him to express himself openly in contemporary novels. Educated as a physician and scientific theorist, Lem possessed expert knowledge of the theory of evolution, mathematics, robotics, astronomy and physics, as well as of literature and many other fields. He became a universal "seeker of wisdom," a philosopher and blazer of the ways opened to mankind by the development of science and technology.

http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/engli...yberiadapl.htm
http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/engli...ela/dziela.htm

Pisis · 03-29-2006, 07:23 AM

Thanks for letting us know.
Rest in peace.

03-28-2006, 11:22 AM	#1
v2 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cracow Posts: 4,207	Stanislaw Lem died. Born in Lwow in 1921, Lem had lived in Cracow since 1946. He died there on March 27, 2006. He was the Polish writer who was the most popular and the most frequently published abroad. A classic of science fiction, Lem was nevertheless atypical of the writers in that genre - perhaps because he chose it less than freely in the 1940s, when the political oppression of Stalinism made it impossible for him to express himself openly in contemporary novels. Educated as a physician and scientific theorist, Lem possessed expert knowledge of the theory of evolution, mathematics, robotics, astronomy and physics, as well as of literature and many other fields. He became a universal "seeker of wisdom," a philosopher and blazer of the ways opened to mankind by the development of science and technology. http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/engli...yberiadapl.htm http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/engli...ela/dziela.htm Last edited by v2; 03-28-2006 at 12:42 PM.

03-29-2006, 07:23 AM	#2
Pisis Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Praga Mater Urbium Posts: 5,859	Thanks for letting us know. Rest in peace. __________________ "He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too." - Airplane! Memory of Nation Why Did Hitler Want Czechoslovakia WW2 Was A War That Had To Be Fought! What Really Happened in Israel? Children of Hamas

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