Kraków 1970/Wydawnictwo Literackie Kraków/ print run of 5283 copies/ 21x 15 cm/s. 292 + 458/ hardcover, cloth with wrapper/ very good condition, minor damage to wrapper
The wrapper, cover and title page were designed by Barbara Konarzewska. First edition.
Reading "Fantastika i futurologia" has little in common with reading expert theoretical-literary works - it is rather an adventure in the jungle of topics, ideas about the future of the world, literary ideas, stylistics, and so on. What is particularly interesting - Lem does not stop here at referring to other people's ideas and books, but also makes his own works the subject of analysis, inquires into the sources of his inspiration, traces the paths of his own thought and indicates from which masters he took lessons. Indeed, no interpreter of his works can pass by these challenges indifferently. There is, moreover, a thread in these reflections on future fiction that sounds inherently more id others personally: it is the whole field of reflection on futurology, on the hypothetical future fate of the Earth and its inhabitants.