了解科幻思想家的世界

节目用书

1.

《索拉里斯星》

作者:  [波兰] 斯塔尼斯瓦夫·莱姆 
出版社: 花城出版社
出版年: 2014-4
页数: 198页

内容简介

小说以一个被神秘大洋覆盖的星球为背景，这个大洋是一个胶质构成的生命体，它能够进入人的大脑，将记忆深处最不为人知的部分，以具象的形式呈现在人眼前。

在这片大海面前，任何人都毫无秘密可言，心灵深处的痛苦被袒露无遗。科学家们围绕这个不解之谜做出种种推测，却难以自圆其说。

《索拉里斯星》把人类的知识和情感结合在一起，将人置于绝望的境地，让其做出最艰难的抉择。

作者简介

斯塔尼斯瓦夫·莱姆：波兰著名科幻文学作家、哲学家，1921年出生于乌克兰，2006年在波兰去世。他的作品触及科技发展、人类本性、人类认识世界能力以及人在宇宙中的位置等具有哲学意味的宏大主题。

其代表作有《追踪》（1959）、《伊甸园》（1959）、《索拉里斯星》（1961）、《机器人童话》（1964）、《无敌者》（1964）、《机器人》（1965）、《失败》（1987）、《瞬间》（2000）等。

了解延伸阅读

1. 

《Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations)》

作者:  Stanislaw Lem 

出版社: Univ Of Minnesota Press
译者:  Joanna Zylinska 
出版年: 2014-1-1
页数: 440

内容简介

The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the limitations of both science and humanity.

2. 

《The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem》

作者:  Peter Swirski 

出版年: 2008-6
页数: 208
定价: $ 33.84

内容简介

The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach.

 "The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem" offers an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship. 

Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy. 

This unique collection also includes "Smart Robots," a previously unpublished essay by Lem.