MIT Press marks sci-fi visionary Stanisław Lem's birthday, still prescient today
round · x · 2026-09-12
- MIT Press celebrates the birthday of Stanisław Lem, born in 1921.
- The NYT once called him a writer "worthy of the Nobel Prize."
- Across six decades Lem probed human absurdities while imagining futures that still feel startlingly prescient.
- MIT Press showcases its editions of his books.
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