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Absorbing, also, to watch Lem outline many of the themes and ideas that he will later develop brilliantly in his science fiction. -Kirkus Reviews - Lem carefully develops his characters before he etches them away with the stresses of war, showing them as archetypes of courage, cowardice, perfidy, and love. -Village Voice - A phenomenon called Lem did not grow into a writer, but sprang from the head of Zeus like Athena, full armed; but with a portable Remington instead of a spear. -Bloomsbury Review -

A phenomenon called Lem did not grow into a writer, but sprang from the head of Zeus like Athena, full armed; but with a portable Remington instead of a spear. -Bloomsbury Review - Lem carefully develops his characters before he etches them away with the stresses of war, showing them as archetypes of courage, cowardice, perfidy, and love. -Village Voice - Absorbing, also, to watch Lem outline many of the themes and ideas that he will later develop brilliantly in his science fiction. -Kirkus Reviews -

The release of these new volumes seems to expand the possibilities of what a university publisher can do. -LitHub A phenomenon called Lem did not grow into a writer, but sprang from the head of Zeus like Athena, full armed; but with a portable Remington instead of a spear. -Bloomsbury Review - Lem carefully develops his characters before he etches them away with the stresses of war, showing them as archetypes of courage, cowardice, perfidy, and love. -Village Voice - Absorbing, also, to watch Lem outline many of the themes and ideas that he will later develop brilliantly in his science fiction. -Kirkus Reviews -

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Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a writer called ""worthy of the Nobel Prize"" by the New York Times, was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. His books have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold more than thirty million copies.

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