Stories, interviews, memoirs, humorous notes, philosophical essays by Stanislaw Lem from different years. Some of them have already been published previously in periodicals, but most of them are being published in Russian for the first time. The works included in this collection once again amaze the reader not only with the power, but also with the extraordinary versatility of the talent of Lem, an outstanding science fiction writer and philosopher of the twentieth century. Reader, attention! This text mentions the popular word starting with the letter “w” 15 times.