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Stanisław Lem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3413 words) |
 | He wrote about human technological progress and the problem of human existence in a world where technological development makes biological human impulses obsolete or dangerous (a theme famously explored by Aldous Huxley in his celebrated work, "Brave New World"). |
| He was also critical of most of science fiction, criticizing sci-fi novels in both novels (Głos Pana), literary and philosophical essays (Fantastyka i futurologia) and interviews[4]. |
| Fantastyka i futurologia (1970) - Critiques on science fiction. |
| THESIS ABSTRACT (17362 words) |
| This is perhaps least apparent in the contrast between the Socialist Utopia and science fiction (‘fantastyka') Utopia, and is still somewhat tenuous in the contrast between the bourgeois Utopia (exemplified by Richardson's novels) and the Gothic Utopia. |
| It is primarily in the individualized voices of the unofficial strand (the dialogists of Arcadia, the heroine of the feminine Gothic, the "liberation" of ideas in Eastern European fantastyka) that this relative sense of polylogism arises. |
| (Fantastyka's subgenre of "alternative versions of history" similarly retreats in time, while the "parallel universe" subgenre may be said to move laterally in time and space.) These notable exceptions, however, simply reflect the vitality of the genre, and do not destroy the overall truth of the generalization. |
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