Lem. Life is not of this earth | Wojciech Orlinskyi

The first biography of a great science fiction writer and futurist in Poland. And the first Ukrainian-language biography of Stanislav Lem, born in Lviv, since the independence of Ukraine.

The book details how Lem survived the Holocaust in Lviv; his relationship with the communist idea, the reasons for his departure to Poland in 1945; why Lam did not become a doctor, although he completed the full course of the medical academy; how the formation of a young writer took place during the difficult years of Stalinism in Poland; why Andrzej Wajda never filmed "Solaris"; the story of Philip Dick's famous report to the FBI on Lem, who was a KGB agent; Lem's relationship with Krakow bishop Karol Wojtyla; long-term and comprehensive creativity; private life in a loving family; many other interesting stories that represent an extraordinary personality against the background of the era. "Lem. Life is not from this land" is not only a biography of Stanislav Lem, it is a detailed, dramatic and honest story about the complex history of Central-Eastern Europe, in which Lviv occupies one of the prominent places in the first half of the 20th century.