"Lem. Life not from this earth" is the first biography of Poland's great science fiction writer and futurist. And the first biography in the Ukrainian language of Stanislav Lem, born in Lviv, since the independence of Ukraine.
The book details how Lem survived the Holocaust in Lviv; his relationship with the communist idea, the reasons for his departure to Poland in 1945; why Lam did not become a doctor, although he completed the entire course of the medical academy; how the formation of a young writer took place during the difficult years of Stalinism in Poland; why Andrzej Wajda never filmed "Solaris"; the story of Philip Dick's famous report to the FBI on Lem, who was a KGB agent; Lem's relationship with Krakow bishop Karol Wojtyla; long-term and comprehensive creativity; private life in a loving family; many other exciting stories that represent an extraordinary personality against the background of the era.
Lem. Life not from this earth is not only a biography of Stanislav Lem, and it is a detailed, dramatic and honest story about the complex history of Central-Eastern Europe, in which Lviv occupies one of the prominent places in the first half of the 20th century.
Wojciech Orlinski (born in 1969) is a Polish journalist and writer.
