The sayings of our politicians are the newest area of folk art. Some of them have already been picked up by the broad masses; others, no less outstanding, mu...

The heroes of this collection fly to distant stars to make contact with representatives of other civilizations. They return from an unimaginably distant plac...

This is not the first anthology of this kind in Russia. What distinguishes it from the previous ones? First of all: its main source was not “ready-made” coll...

Before you are “literary apocrypha” by Stanislaw Lem. Prefaces to unwritten books, reviews of non-existent novels, ironic pseudoscientific lectures, fictitio...

Popular quotes are one of the important parts of culture; often these are formulas of our thinking. Knowing where they came from and what they meant at diffe...

A collection in which Lem's talents - writer, philosopher and literary critic - were equally demonstrated. "Imaginary value." The famous "apocrypha" of Stani...

During office hours, Professor Tarantoga is forced to communicate with inventors in a wide variety of fields. In line waiting to be received: the inventor of...

Reality always appears to me through a haze of words. I will sacrifice authenticity for the sake of a successful phrase and am ready to sacrifice truth for t...

Stanislav Lem. The author of legendary works on which generations of science fiction fans grew up - "Solaris", "Eden", "The Star Diaries of Ijon the Quiet" -...

The book includes the novels “Return from the Stars”, “The Voice of the Lord” and stories by the world famous Polish writer and philosopher.