The Truth and Other Stories

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] 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

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

Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. He was once described by the New York Times as “worthy of the Nobel Prize.” His works have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold over thirty million copies worldwide.

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