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mostly on the story; others, however, read more like serious, academic reviews. Some of the reviews are parodies, or the books being reviewed are parodies or complete impossibilities, others are quite serious and can be seen almost as drafts for novels that Lem never got around to write. Lem wrote: "With years passing a great impatience grew in me. It would be a hard work to convert ideas into narration, and that was one of the main reasons I went for such cruel abridgements of the books". Lem was not alone in passing through this kind of crisis: examples abound of works planned by literary celebrities, but never completed. Lem also remarked that he was eventually convinced that writing summaries and introductions enabled him to save time on producing things of importance, namely, his modeling experiments, compared to full-blown literary efforts, most of which would have constituted mundane craftsmanship.
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book is alleged to be a collection of statistical tables, a compilation that includes everything that happens to human life on the planet within any given 60 second period. Reviewing it, Lem expresses his fascination with this project and points out its inherent flaw. He notes that these tables show
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attempted to create different fictional reviewers and authors for each of the books. In his own words: "I tried to imitate various styles – that of a book review, a lecture, a presentation, a speech (of a Nobel Prize laureate) and so on". Some of the reviews are lighthearted, concentrating
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in human culture. Lem wrote that some historians took the quite voluminous review of Aspernicus for real and tried to order the non-existing book, and one person even claimed he had the Aspernicus' book at home, despite the fact that Lem dropped a hint by dating the review by a year
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in an ordinary man is basically harmless for humankind. However stupidity of a major historical person has a tragic effect on the course of human history. And this, in Lem's view, can be observed at the roots of many tragic events of the past.
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The Agora SA edition also contained the "Glossary of Lem's Terminology" ("Słownik terminów Lemowskich") based on the book
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reads this book, and the corresponding piece is a nearly verbatim copy of a part of its faux review here.
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inspired Nick Montfort, associate professor of digital media in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at
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is a lengthy essay on the nature of intelligence, delivered by the eponymous US military computer.
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in 1980 issue 7/8, pp. 12–27. Both reviews were first published as a book in 1981 (
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which simulated Stanisław Lem. In fact, Dukaj maintained a column of faux reviews,
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Publication: Waffensysteme des 21. Jahrhunderts oder The Upside Down Evolution
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In a 1991 interview Lem mentioned a possible title of a nonexistent book,
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Książki -> apokryfy -> Biblioteka XXI wieku -> Komentarz Lema
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In 2009 the Hungarian film director Pater Sparrow released film
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may be found in his following works: in three collections of
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digital archive for February 9, 1986, Section 7, Page 39
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by Catherine S. Leach ( Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986
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The review "Provocation" was first published in magazine
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Stanisław Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexistent books
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While reviewing nonexistent books, a modern form of
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Index

Imaginary Magnitude

fictional books
A Perfect Vacuum
pseudepigraphy
Stanisław Lem
A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem
Michael Kandel
cosmology
computers
nouveau roman
pornography
Ulysses
Dostoevsky
Agora SA
Jacek Dukaj
Janusz A. Zajdel Award
artificial intelligences
Science Fiction
sepulki
Wojciech Orliński
Wielkość urojona
pl
Golem XIV
Harvest Books
delusion of grandeur
Final Solution
Salvation
Fremdkörper

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