Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy
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| Author | Stanisław Lem |
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| Translator | Franz Rottensteiner, Werner Koopmann, Robert Abernathy |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Polish |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace & Company |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Pages | 312 |
| ISBN | 9780151594801 |
Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy is a 1984 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem, a collection of his essays on the genres of science fiction and fantasy in general, as well as about specific authors and their works. Edited by Franz Rottensteiner and published in the United States by Harcourt Brace & Company, the book is not an English edition of any of Lem's original Polish books, but consists of excerpts from Fantastyka i futurologia and Rozprawy i szkice.
Contents
- Reflections on my life
- On the structural analysis of science fiction
- Science fiction : a hopeless case – with exceptions
- Philip K. Dick : a visionary among the charlatans
- The time-travel story and related matters of science-fiction structuring
- Metafantasia : the possibilities of science fiction
- Cosmology and science fiction
- Todorov's fantastic theory of literature
- Unitas oppositorum : the prose of Jorge Luis Borges
- About the Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic
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