# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:37.607Z

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name: "Stanisław Lem"
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description: "The Polish writer who sold 45 million books by making first contact feel like a diagnostic failure. His aliens don't speak — they confound, they resist translation, they prove the limits of human reach. Solaris made him the most widely read science fiction author on the planet by 1976, but the philosophy ran deeper than the genre."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Stanisław Herman Lem was born 12 September 1921 in Poland and spent decades building science fiction into a vehicle for epistemology. His 1961 novel Solaris became his global calling card, but the scaffolding underneath was Summa Technologiae — a philosophical work anticipating virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and human autoevolution before the hardware existed. He wrote novels, short stories, and essays, many satirical, many humorous, all concerned with the same knot: technology's promise, intelligence we can't decode, and the gap between what we build and what we understand. His neologisms and wordplay made translation a puzzle. By the time he died on 27 March 2006, more than 50 languages carried his work, and the Polish Parliament named 2021 his year.