Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem

An enjoyable, quirky collection.

Stanislaw Lem - The lilo

Nicely paranoid story about a wealthy man who will stop at nothing to prove reality real.

Stanislaw Lem - Darkness and mildew

An accident destroys a really nasty weapon...

Stanislaw Lem - Invasion from Aldebaran

A drunken hick has a strange encounter on a dark night...Hilarious

Stanislaw Lem - Every little helps

A review of Frank Cottrell Boyce's "Every little helps"

Adam Roberts - Pied Piper

A modern day moralitiy tale about the dangers of getting what is wished for.

Toby Litt - The Melancholy

Very short story about Application 13-13, an artificial intelligence used to run a series of machines on inhospitable planets, who suffers one too many changes....

Ian Watson - The Tale of Trurl and the Great TanGent

Hilarious tale of an encounter between the all powerful constructor robot Trurl and the Great TanGent, a 'logic chopper'.

Trevor Hoyle - The 5-Sigma certainty

A journalist sent to interview the author Philip K. Dick discovers something verystrange about the author Stanislaw Lem.

Piotr Szulkin - Snail

Rather overlong diatribe about life delivered by an Inspector to a lone caretaker on planetoid Australia 258.

Sarah Schofield - Traces remain

Humans are slowly being replaced by 'actroids' who resemble humans and on the Moon a bureaucrat notices something different about one of them...

Wojciech Orlinski - Stanlemian

A group are sent into a virtual reality New York to gamble but some have other plans...

Adam Marek - Terracotta robot

An aging rock star looking after his problem child joins a tour party visiting a factory making terracotta 'gladiators'. Romance ensues...

Sean O'Brien - Ex libris

A man of literature finds himself adrift in a sea of books, but is rescued by Dr Johnson and Boswell...A very literate nightmare ensues.

Jacek Dukaj - The apocrypha of Lem by Dan Tukagawa, J.B. Krupsky and Aaron Orvits

A thoroughly bizarre yet apposite tribute to Lem posing as a review of the 'posthumous works' of future Lems, created by various artificial means.

Andy Sawyer - Stanislaw Lem - Who's he?

An academic review of Lem's career as a writer

Dr Sarah Davies - Of insects and armies

An academic view of the potential for military nanotechnology

Professor Steve Furber - Building reliable systems out of unreliable components

The potential for using biological models in computing.

Professor Hod Lipson - The spontaneous machine

Raises issue of how to introduce curiosity and creativity into machine thinking. ( )

the few stories by Lem are great as always, but the rest of the authors who try to emulate him are not worth the money ( )