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Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem (Paperback, 2018)

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Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novelSolaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world.

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