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Summa Technologiae

Summa Technologiae

by Stanislaw Lem
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2014
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The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel
Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. In Summa Technologiae - his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time - Lem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms.
ISBN:
9780816675777
9780816675777
Category:
Literary theory
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2014
Language:
Polish
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
440
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x51mm
Weight:
0.59kg
Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem was a Polish author best known for his 1961 science fiction novel Solaris. He also wrote several other SF works including Eden (1959) and His Master's Voice (1968). Lem's books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold over 45 million copies.

He was awarded numerous honours for his writing, including the City of Kraków's Prize in Literature, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Lem died in 2006, aged 84.

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