List of works by Stanisław Lem and their adaptations

Fiction

Individual works

• The Man from Mars, 1946. Short novel, originally published in a magazine serial form. In 2009 for the first time a long excerpt from Chapter 1 was translated into English by Peter Swirski and published, with permission of Lem's family, in the online literary magazine Words Without Borders.
• Hospital of the Transfiguration – partly autobiographical novella about a doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II, centred on a German Nazi euthanasia program Action T4. It was published in expanded form in 1955 as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia, and translated into English by William Brand. In Poland it was made into a film in 1979.
• The Astronauts – young adult science fiction novel. In early 21st century, it is discovered that Tunguska meteorite was a crash of a reconnaissance ship from Venus, bound to invade the Earth. A spaceship sent to investigate finds that Venusians killed themselves in atomic war first. It was made into a film in 1960. Not translated into English.
• The Magellanic Cloud - the first interstellar travel of mankind to the Alpha Centauri system. Not translated into English.
• Eden – Science fiction novel; after crashing their spaceship on the planet Eden, the crew discovers it is populated with an unusual society. Translated into English by Marc E. Heine.
• The Hunt
• The Investigation – philosophical mystery novel. Translated by Adele Milch. The book was made into a short film of the same name by Marek Piestrak in 1973.
• Memoirs Found in a Bathtub – Kafkaesque novel set in the distant future about a secret agent, whose mission in an unnamed ministry is so secret that no one can tell him what it is. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose
• Return from the Stars – Science fiction novel. An astronaut returns to Earth after a 127-year long mission. Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson
• Solaris – science fiction novel. The crew of a remote space station is strangely influenced by the living ocean occupying a whole planet while they attempt communication with it. Translated into English from the French translation by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Made into two Russian films in 1968 and 1972, and an American film in 2002.
• The Invincible – a hard science fiction novel credited with introducing nanotechnology into the genre. The crew of a space cruiser searches for a disappeared ship on the planet Regis III, discovering swarms of insect-like micromachines. Translated from German by Wendayne Ackerman.
• His Master's Voice – Science fiction novel about the effort to translate an extraterrestrial transmission. Translated by Michael Kandel.
• The Futurological Congress – An Ijon Tichy novella, published in the collection Bezsenność and Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego. Translated by Michael Kandel and published as a standalone novella..
• The Chain of Chance – borderline SF novel. A former US astronaut is sent to Italy to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. Translated by Louis Iribarne.
• Golem XIV – science novel. Expansion of an essay/story from the collection Wielkość urojona. An English translation of the novel was included in the English edition of the collection.
• Observation on the Spot – Ijon Tichy novel about the planet Entia. Not translated into English.
• Fiasco – dystopian science fiction novel about an expedition to communicate with an alien civilization that results in a major fiasco. Translated by Michael Kandel
• Peace on Earth – Ijon Tichy novel. A callosotomised Tichy returns to Earth, trying to reconstruct the events of his recent visit to the Moon. Translated by Michael Kandel and Elinor Ford.

  Compilations

• Sezam – Linked collection of short fiction, dealing with time machines used to clean up Earth's history in order to be accepted into intergalactic society. Not translated into English.
• The Star Diaries – Collection of short fiction dealing with the voyages of Ijon Tichy. English translations of some stories were published in two volumes: the first, The Star Diaries, by Michael Kandel and the second, Memoirs of a space traveler: further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek.
• The Invasion from Aldebaran – Collection of nine science fiction stories, among them three Tales of Pirx the Pilot tales and Ciemność i pleśń, about the creation of Whisteria Cosmolytica which is described as "a microbe annihilating matter and drawing its vital energy from that process", creating a grey goo scenario.
• Mortal Engines – Also contains The Hunt from Tales of Pirx the Pilot. Selected translation by Michael Kandel.
• The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age – collection of humorous baroque-style stories about the exploits of Trurl and Klapaucius, "constructors" among robots. The stories of Douglas Adams have been compared to the Cyberiad. Transl. by Michael Kandel
• A Perfect Vacuum – Collection of reviews of fictional books. Transl. by Michael Kandel.
• Imaginary Magnitude – Collection of introductions to nonexistent books. Also includes Golem XIV, a lengthy essay/short story on the nature of intelligence delivered by an eponymous US military computer. In the personality of Golem XIV, Lem with a great amount of humor describes an ideal of his own mind. Transl. by Marc E. Heine.
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot – Collection of linked short fiction involving the career of astronaut Pirx. English translations of some stories were published in two volumes: the first, Tales of Pirx the Pilot, by Louis Iribarne and the second, More Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Louis Iribarne, Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel.
• The cosmic carnival of Stanisław Lem : an anthology of entertaining stories by the modern master of science fiction, Edited with commentary by Michael Kandel. New York: Continuum, 1981. Includes:
• *"The condor" from The Invincible
• *Excerpt from "Solaris"
• *The Test
• *Chapter Seven of "Return from the Stars"
• *Excerpt from "The Futurological Congress"
• *Two monsters
• *The second sally
• *Tale of the computer that fought a dragon
• *The history of Zipperupus
• *The Star Diaries: The Fourteenth Voyage
• *Les Robinsonades
• Provocation contains two faux reviews. Not translated into English.
• One Human Minute – 3 more fictional reviews. Transl. by Catherine S. Leach
• The Riddle – Short stories collection. Not translated into English.
• The Fantastical Lem – Short stories collection. Not translated into English.
• Lemistry: a celebration of the work of Stanisław Lem. Edited by Ra Page. A collection of three translated short works by Lem and works by other authors but inspired by Lem..

  Nonfiction

• Dialogi - Non-fiction work of philosophy. Translated into English by Frank Prengel as Dialogs.
• Wejście na orbitę
• Summa Technologiae - Philosophical essay. Partially translated into English.
• Wysoki zamek - Autobiography of Lem's childhood in the interbellum Lwow. Translated into English as ' by Michael Kandel
• Filozofia Przypadku - Nonfiction
• Fantastyka i futurologia - Critiques on science fiction. Some parts were translated into English in the magazine Science Fiction Studies in 1973-1975, selected material was translated in the single volume Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Franz Rottensteiner. Includes two important essays on Philip K. Dick.
• Conversations with Stanisław Lem,
• ' - collection of essays on science, science fiction, and literature in general
• Lube czasy
• Dziury w całym
• Tajemnica chińskiego pokoju - Collection of essays on the impact of technology on everyday life.
• Sex Wars - essays
• Dyskusje ze Stanisławem Lemem M. Szpakowska, Discussions with Stanisław Lem, Warszawa 1996
• Bomba megabitowa - Collection of essays about the potential downside of technology, including terrorism and artificial intelligence.
• World on the Brink interviews of Tomasz Fiałkowski with Lem
• Okamgnienie – Collection of essays on technological progress since the publication of Summa Technologiae
• Thus Spoke... Lem - Interviews with Lem.
• Mój pogląd na literaturę
• Krótkie zwarcia - Essays
• Lata czterdzieste. Dyktanda. - Lem's works from the 1940s
• Rasa drapieżców. Teksty ostatnie - the last book of Stanislaw Lem contains actual feuilletons about art, politic and social problems from Polish press "Tygodnik Powszechny".
• Boli tylko, gdy się śmieję... Listy i rozmowy, Stanisław Lem, Ewa Lipska, Tomasz Lem, ebook, 2018,, Wydawnictwo Literackie''
• :From book description: "... Contains records of conversations the poet and the writer had in early 21st century, as well as the letters which Ewa Lipska exchanged with Stanisław Lem's son when he sudied in the United States. The book is adorned with numerous photos."

  Dramatic adaptations

• Der Schweigende Stern, loosely based on The Astronauts
• Profesor Zazul, Poland 1962, directed by Marek Nowicki and Jerzy Stawicki.
• Przekładaniec
• Ikarie XB-1 – loosely based on The Magellanic Cloud, uncredited
• Solaris - by Boris Nirenburg. TV play based on the novel Solaris
• Solaris
• Pirx kalandjai
• Test pilota Pirxa or Дознание пилота Пиркса

• Szpital przemienienia
• Victim of the Brain includes adaptation of the story "The Seventh Sally" from The Cyberiad
• Marianengraben
• Solaris
• , German TV miniseries, 6 episodes, directed by Oliver Jahn, after his student's film from 1998.
• *the authors of Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot, created two short films Aus den Sterntagebüchern des Ijon Tichy and Aus den Sterntagebüchern des Ijon Tichy II. The former won the audience award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival in 1999.
• Solaris, Multimedia project by Zlatko Slavenski
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• Solaris 29 July 2007, BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial radio play adaptation, 2 one-hour episodes, adapted by Hattie Naylor, produced by Polly Thomas.
• Thirty-Minute Theatre: Roly Poly - by Michael Hart , scenario of one part was based on the story "Do you exist Mr Jones?"
• Maska , directed by the Brothers Quay, based on Lem's short story of the same title
• The Congress, directed by Ari Folman

  Music adaptations

• The Cyberiad, an opera by Krzysztof Meyer; broadcast by Polish Television, staged in Wuppertal
• Solaris , an opera by Detlev Glanert, libretto by Reinhard Palm, staged in Bregenz
• Texts by Lem were set to music by Esa-Pekka Salonen in his 1982 piece, Floof.