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Terminus (short Story)
"Terminus" is a science fiction short story by Polish writer Stanisław Lem first published in 1961 in the collection '. It is a story of a robot which was damaged in a spaceship accident and started performing eerie actions it was not aware of, as if it was somehow "possessed" by the spaceship crew that had perished in the same accident. Plot Pirx becomes a spaceship captain, and his first appointment is an old renovated ship which had been destroyed in a collision with a meteor swarm nineteen years ago, and its crew had perished, marooned without oxygen. On the ship Pirx runs into a robot named Terminus repairing leakages from ship's nuclear engine, and to his surprise Pirx recognizes ''Morse code'' in robot's tapping, which appears to carry communications with each other of the long dead crew, isolated in separate cabins. Terminus is unaware of what happens to it. It seems that the memories of the crew got imprinted in robot's circuits, otherwise primitive and lacking any ment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel ''Solaris (novel), Solaris''. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Lem was the author of the fundamental philosophical work ''Summa Technologiae'', in which he anticipated the creation of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and also developed the ideas of human autoevolution, the creation of Simulacrum, artificial worlds, and many others. Lem's science fiction works explore philosophical themes through speculations on technology, the nature of int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Short Stories
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which study the physical world, and the social sciences, which study individuals and societies. While referred to as the formal sciences, the study of logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science are typically regarded as separate because they rely on deductive reasoning instead of the scientific method as their main methodology. Meanwhile, applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as engineering and medicine. The history of science spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest identifiable predecessors to modern science dating to the Bronze Age in Egypt and Mesopotamia (). Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped the Greek natural philo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Short Stories
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Works By Stanisław Lem
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Stanisław Lem And Robots
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Jerzy Jarzębski
Jerzy Jarzębski (August 22, 1947 – February 25, 2024) was a Polish literary historian and critic, a long time professor at the Jagiellonian University. He is acclaimed for his research on Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz, Stanisław Lem, as well as on new names, such as , Marek Hłasko and Olga Tokarczuk, among other works. He was born in Bytom. In 1965 he began his studies at the Jagiellonian University. In 1971 he started his work at the university as a teaching assistant, obtained his habilitation in 1993, and in 1998 he obtained the title of professor. During 2005-2012 he was deputy dean of the Faculty of Polish Studies of the university. He was also a visiting professor at a number of universities all over the world. His works were translated into 20 languages. Books * Gra w Gombrowicza (1982) * Powieść jako autokreacja (1984) * Zufall und Ordnung. Zum Werk Stanislaw Lems (1986) * W Polsce, czyli wszędzie. Studia o polskiej prozie współczesnej (1992) * Apetyt na Prz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Bereś
Stanisław Bereś (born 4 May 1950) is a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and literary historian."Stanisław Bereś" (retrieved November 16, 2015) /ref> He is professor at the , both at the Institute of Polish and the Department of Journalism and Social Communication. In 1987-1993 he taught at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living exclusively through writing, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.. Poe was born in Boston. He was the second child of actors David Poe Jr., David and Eliza Poe, Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when Eliza died the following year, Poe was taken in by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirx
Pilot Pirx is a fictional character introduced in 1966 in the science fiction stories of Polish writer Stanisław Lem: ten short stories (published in English in two parts, 1979's ''Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' and 1982's ''More Tales of Pirx the Pilot''). Later he appeared in the novel '' Fiasco''. In the stories, Pirx is progressively depicted as a spaceship cadet, simply Pirx (which hurts his feelings because he had already become pilot and he'd rather be addressed as "pilot Pirx"), beginner pilot, a seasoned pilot, navigator, and finally, captain (''komandor'').Wojciech Orliński, ''Co to są sepulki? Wszystko o Lemie'' 'What are Sepulki? Everything about Lem'' 2007, , pp. 168-171. In 7 of the 10 stories Pirx acts in the role of Sherlock Holmes, to investigate mysterious events."Pilot Pirx jako Sherlock Holmes" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Grabiński
Stefan Grabiński (26 February 1887 – 12 November 1936) was a Polish writer of Fantastique, fantastic literature and Horror story, horror stories. He is sometimes referred to as the "Polish Edgar Allan Poe, Poe" or "Polish Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Lovecraft", although his works are often surrealistic or explicitly erotic in a way that sets him apart from both. He was very interested in parapsychology, magic and demonology and in the works of the German Expressionism#Cinema and architecture, German Expressionist filmmakers. Biography Grabiński was born in Kamianka-Buzka, Kamionka Strumiłowa, then part of Poland (present-day Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine), situated by the Bug River. His family was well off as his father, Dionizos, was a local judge, but Stefan's childhood was marred because of his proneness to various illnesses. He often read while lying in bed, which made him slightly reclusive and nurtured his bias in favor of dark fantasy and mysticism. After his father's death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
