SOURCE: “The Pseudo-Utopian Cosmographies of Stanislaw Lem,” in Utopian Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 122–48.
In the following essay, Jurich examines the presentation of “pseudo-utopias” in Lem's fiction. Jurich holds that Lem reveals the insidious oppression and self-destruction inherent in false promises of ideal social order and scientifically engineered freedom through his depiction of pseudo-utopias.
