Stanisław Lem – colossus of science fiction of the XX century
Saturday, July 8th, 2006When I was a little boy the books by Julius Verne allowed me to travel. I went around the world in 80 days, I visited the oceans with captain Nemo, and I even traveled to the moon. A couple of years later came the time of Łajka, Gagarin, and Armstrong. All of a sudden the mankind was on a brink of conquering space. And this is when, for the first time, I saw a book written by Stanisław Lem. For a teenager in Poland, in the fifties, when everything was a “state secret”, his books about robots, astronauts, and space vehicles were like a magical world. Lem opened our eyes; his books moved galaxies and planets closer to us, while the technology became more understandable and accessible.
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