His childhood between the two world wars was recounted in the 1997 memoir Highcastle, and his philosophical essays on such topics as experimental metaphysics are contained in 1964's Summa Technologiae.
His childhood between the two world wars was recounted in the 1997 memoir Highcastle, and his philosophical essays on such topics as experimental metaphysics are contained in 1964's Summa Technologiae. He addressed the problems of communication with other species in His Master's Voice, and his A Perfect Vacuum contains reviews of unwritten books. His Hospital of the Transfiguration is set in an insane assylum during World War II, but this man is more famous for shorter works contained in The Star Diaries, which introduced Ijon Tichy [pron: ee-yon tee-hee], a novel called Return From the Stars, and a six-story collection, Tales of Pirx the Pilot. Also known for a series of works about Klaupacius and Trurl called The Cyberiad, for 10 points, identify this Polish author best known for his 1961 novel Solaris.
His childhood between the two world wars was recounted in the 1997 memoir Highcastle, and his philosophical essays on such topics as experimental metaphysics are contained in 1964's Summa Technologiae.
Stanislaw {Lem}