A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.

An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.

The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.

How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and less programmed.

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.

An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes.

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades.

Researchers rethink tactics for inventing and disseminating research, examining the use of such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms.