The science fiction establishment has gradually learned to love Stanisław Lem. But Lem hardly returned the favor. He dismissed most science fiction as poorly written, ill conceived and too focused on the clichés of adventure stories. The “Lem affair,” as the resulting controversy came to be known, grew so heated that the author was expelled from the Sci…
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