Science Fiction Studies

Stanislaw Lem

• Interviews
• Articles
• Review Pages
• Notes and Correspondence
• On Lem On Todorov

Interviews

• LEM, Stanislaw. Interview with Stanislaw Lem (Federman) #29, 10:1 [March 1983] 2-14

• ------. Twenty-Two Answers and Two Postscripts. Interview with Stanislaw Lem. #40, 13:3 [November 1986] 242-60

Articles

• AL'TOV, Genrikh. Levels of Narrative Ideas: Colors on the SF Palette. #15, 5:2. [July 1978].157-63. (Full Text)
• ANNINSKI, L.A. On Lem's The High Castle. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].345-51.
• BALCERZAN, Edward. Language and Ethics in Solaris. #6, 2:2 [July 1975].152-56. (Full Text)
• BARNOUW, Dagmar Scince Fiction as a Model for Probabilistic Worlds: Stanislaw Lem's Fantastic Empiricism #18, 6: 2 [July 1979].153-63.(Full Text)
• COLLINGS, Michael R. Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide (Beatty) #85, 28:3 [November 2001].456-57.
• CSICSERY-RONAY, Istvan, Jr.  Editorial Introduction (to the Stanislaw Lem Issue). #40, 13:3 [November 1986].231-241. (Full Text)
• ------. The Book is the Alien: On Certain and Uncertain Readings of Lem's Solaris. #35, 12:1 [March 1985].6-21.
• ENNS, Anthony. Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris and His Master’s Voice #86, 29:1 [March 2002].34-52.
• FIELD, David. Fluid Worlds: Lem's Solaris and Nabokov's Ada. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].329-44.
• GEIER, Manfred. Stanislaw Lem's Fantastic Ocean. Toward a Semantic Interpretation of Solaris. #57, 19:2 [July 1992].192-218.(Full Text)
• HAYLES, N. Katherine. Space for Writing: Stanislaw Lem and the Dialectic "That Guides My Pen." #40, 13:3 [November 1986].292-312.
• HOLLINGER, Veronica. Contemporary Trends in Science Fiction Criticism, 1980-1999. #78, 26:2 [July 1999].232-62.(Full Text)
• KANDEL, Michael. Two Meditations on Stanislaw Lem. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].374-81.
• KRABBENHOFT, Kenneth. Lem as Moral Theologian. #63, 21:2 [July 1994].212-24.
• JARZĘBSKI, Jerzy. Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary. #12, 4:2 [July 1977].110-26.
• ------. Stanislaw Lem's "Star Diaries," #40, 13:3 [November 1986].361-73.
• LEM, Stanislaw. About the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic. #31, 10:3 [November 1983].317-32.
• ------. Cosmology and Science Fiction. #12, 4:2 [July 1977].107-10.
• ------. Metafantasia: The Possibilities of SF. #23, 8:1 [March 1986].54-71.
• ------. Metafuturology. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].261-71.
• ------. On Stapledon's Last and First Men. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].272-91.
• ------. On Stapledon's Star Maker. #41, 14:1 [March 1987].1-8.

• ------. On the Structural Analysis of SF. #1, 1:1 [Spring 1973].26-33. (Full Text)

• ------. On the Genesis of Wizja Lokalna (Eyewitness Account) #40, 13:3 [November 1986].382-386.

• ------. Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans. #5, 2:1 [March 1975].54-67.(Full Text)
• ------. Remarks Occasioned by Antoni Slonimski's The Torpedo of Time. #34, 11:3 [November 1984].233-43.
• ------. Remarks Occasioned by Dr. Plank's Essay "Quixote's Mills," #2, 1:2 [Fall 1973].78-84.(Full Text)
• ------. The Time Travel Story and Related Matters of SF Structuring. #3, 1:3 [Spring 1974].143-54.(Full Text)
• ------. Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature. #4, 1:4 [Fall 1974].227-37. (Full Text)

• ------. Zulawski's Silver Globe. #35, 12:1 [March 1985].1-5.

• MALMGREN, Carl D. Towards a Definition of Science Fantasy. #46, 15:3 [November1988].259-81.

• PHILMUS, Robert M.  Futurological Congress as Metageneric Text. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].313-28.

• RODNIANSKAIA, Irina. Two Faces of Stanislaw Lem: On His Master's Voice. #40, 13:3 [November 1986].352-60.

• SLUSSER, George E. Structures of Apprehension: Lem, Heinlein, and the Strugatskys.  #47, 16:1 [March 1989].1-37.

• WEINSTONE, Ann. Resisting Monsters. Notes on Solaris. #63, 21:2 [July 1994].173-90.

Review Pages

• BALCZERZAK, Eva. Stanislaw Lem. (Swirski). #58, 19:3 [November 1992].411-16.
• BERES, Stanislaw. Rozmony ze Stanislawem Lemem (Swirski). #58, 19:3 [November 1992].411-16.
• DAVIS, J. Madison. Stanislaw Lem (Swirski). #58, 19:3 [November 1992].411-16.
• de l'Isle-Adam, Villiers Tomorrow's Eve.#34, 11:3 [November 1984] 318-23
• DUNN, Thomas P, & Richard D. Erlich, eds. The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction (McCarthy). #34, 11:3 [November 1984].337-38.
• JARZEBSKI, Jerzy. Lem o oczach krytyki swiatowej (Swirski). #58, 19:3 [November 1992].411-16.
• -------. Zufall und Ordnung: Zum Werk Stanislaw Lems (Rottensteiner). #40, 13:3 [November 1986].393-95.
• HACKETT, Sir John, et al. The Third World War: August 1985. (Lem) #22, 7:3 [November 1980].331-38.

• HAYNES, Roslynn D. From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature. (Wagar). #65, 22:1 [March 1995].113-18.

• JONAS, Doris, & David Jonas. Other Senses, Other Worlds (Lem). #22, 7:3 [November 1980].330-38.
• KETTERER, David. New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic lmagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature (Fredericks). #3, 1:3 [Spring 1974].217-19.
• KRYWAK, Piotr. Stanislaw Lem. (Swirski). #58, 19:3 [November 1992].411-16.
• MALMGREN, Carl D. Worlds Apart: Narratology of Science Fiction (Ketterer). #56, 19:1 [March 1992].109-16.
• STOFF, Andrzej. Lem i inni: Szkice o Polskiej science fiction (Swirski). #58, 19:3 [November 1992].411-16.
• SWIRSKI, Peter. Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem, and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge. (Ash) #86, 29:1 [March 2002].133-35.
• ------. A Stanislaw Lem Reader. (Csicsery-Ronay) #76, 25:3 [November 1998].545-48.
• VELIKOVSKY, Immanuel Worlds in Collision (Lem). #22, 7:3 [November 1980].332-34.
• WATSON, Ian. The Martian Inca (Lem). #22, 7:3 [November 1980].331-38.
• WATSON, Lyall. Lifetide: The Biology of the Unconscious (Lem). #22, 7:3 [November 1980].332-38.
• WEIZENBAUM, Joseph. Computer Power and Human Reason  (Lem). #22, 7:3 [November 1980].331-38.
• ZEBROWSKI, George. Beneath the Red Star: Studies on International Science Fiction. (Mullen). #72, 24:2 [July 1997].318-23.
• ZIEFELD, Richard E. Stanislaw Lem (Csicsery-Ronay) #40, 13:3 [November 1986].387-91.
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Notes and Correspondence

• SFS #2
• Franz Rottensteiner, James Blish, Ursula K. Le Guin, H. Bruce Franklin, and Chandler Davis: Change, SF, and Marxism: Open or Closed Universes
• SFS #5

• Our Review Policy (RDM)

• A Response to Mr. Lem (Damon Knight)

• SFS #12
• On the Ouster of Stanislaw Lem from the SFWA
  • Brian W. Aldiss. What Dark Non-Literary Passions
  • Stanislaw Lem. Looking Down on Science Fiction [from Atlas]
  • Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski. How It Happened: A Chronology
  • Pamela Sargent. Why It Happened: Comments and Conclusions
  • George Zebrowski. Why It Happened: Some Notes and Opinions
  • Jack Dann, Gregory Benford. Letters on the Affair
  • Andrew Offutt (President of SFWA). How It Happened: One Bad Decision Leading to Another
  • R.D. Mullen. I Could Not Love Thee, Dear, So Much
• SFS #13
• On the Lem Affair (James Gunn)
• On Lem on Cosmology and SF (Gregory Benford)
• SFS #14
  • The Lem Affair (continued)
  • Philip K. Dick. A Clarification
  • Pamela Sargent. A Suggestion
  • Darko Suvin. What Lem Actually Wrote: A Philologico-Ideological Note
  • MORE
• SFS #69
• To Set the Record Straight (Franz Rottensteiner)
• In Response to Franz Rottensteiner (Stanislaw Lem)
• SFS #73
• To the Editors (Stanislaw Lem)  
• SFS #77
• New Format for a Long-Running Magazine (Franz Rottensteiner)
• SFS #83
• Stanislaw Lem: A Moralist Who Doesn’t Moralize (Peter Haffner)

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