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.

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.