" The Truth and Other Storie s makes a giant addition to the Lem shelf. It's both a terrific entry point for the Lem-curious, and an astonishing gift to those Lem fanatics who'd foolishly imagined we'd already read the entirety of this promiscuous, prescient, and centrifugal genius." -- Jonathan Lethem, author of As She Climbed Across the Table "A delirious AI that dreams simulated universes, a hunted robot on the run, the bending trajectories of lonely interstellar voyages, the mathematical pursuit of superintelligence: through some of his major narrative themes, Lem masterfully reflects on cognition, otherness, and human ingenuity." -- Matilde Marcolli, Robert F. Christy Professor of Mathematics and Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology; author of Lumen Naturae: Visions of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics "I have read Lem all my life. He formed me as a reader and as a writer. He freed my imagination and shaped my sense of humor. I know many of his stories almost by heart.

If I had to take a suitcase of books to a desert island, they would definitely include Stanislaw Lem . " -- Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature; author of Flights and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead "Any new book by Stanislaw Lem is a cause for celebration. His novel Solaris ranks among the finest science fiction novels ever written, and his short fiction is outstanding. This new collection belongs on the shelf of any serious science fiction reader." -- Jonathan Strahan, World Fantasy Award winning editor and multiple Hugo Award nominee.