The Boston Globe, December 15th, 2002
LIKE MANY CREATORS OF science fiction, the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is fascinated by what will happen when humanity makes its "first contact" with an intelligent alien life form. In novels such as "Solaris" (1961) and "His Master's Voice" (1968), Lem suggests that the greatest problem will be communication: If we do meet genuinely otherworldly beings, how will we possibly talk to them? Many sci- fi writers have tried to resolve this dilemma by imagining aliens simply as human beings with funny costumes or pointy ears. But Lem has tackled the problem with stories about creatures so strange t...
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