"This is another plank in the development of the analysis of popular culture and its impact on society. It is very fine indeed. Lem is a contemporary Polish genius, who has much to say to the intelligentsia and Swirski has been careful to find representative scholars of a wide swathe of his contributions. This is laudable, for it opens doors to much data of which few outside of Poland would be aware." Earle Waugh, Dept of History & Classics, University of Alberta "This collection aims to serve readers that love science fiction for its creative application of scientific, philosophical, and religious thought to the imagining of new worlds that shed light on the world in which those readers live. All eight essays deliver fresh material on Lem's works. The time it took me to read this collection was personally well spent." Ian Lancashire, Dept of English, University of Toronto
