Stanislaw Lem

Staniseaw Lem (pronunciation (helpeinfo) IPA: [sta'eiswaf lem], 12 September 1921 - 27 March 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world

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