COGITO ERGO LEM A Hard Nut to Crack - Pas de Deux- The Blink of the Cosmic Eye PART I: BIOGRAPHY CHAPTER 1. LIFE AND TIMES A Master of Thrills and Chills- The Reading of This Book Is Good for You- Renaissance Polymath- Lemberg- Highcastle - Well Over 180- Operation Barbarossa- Jan Donabidowicz - Lvov to Cracow - Social Parasite- The Genre In Which I Write - Borges for the Space Age - Writing Consortium - Wissenschaftskolleg - Away From the Typewriter - On the Sidelines - Encyclopedic Oracle CHAPTER 2. IN THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF BOOKS Ariadne's Thread - The New World of Adventure - The Other Inner Planet - Different Face - Allegorical Pen - SimCity - Hylas and Philonous - The Tricky Relation - The Golden Phase - A Happy Ending - Ammer-Ka - Out Yonder In Space - Dicty - The Seat of His Pants - Of Extraterrestrial Origin - A Critical Point - Cat's Cradle - Hypertrophic Trends - Hoary Fallacy - Homo Rationis Capax - Der Völkermord - The Thanatos Syndrome - After the Last Goosebump Has Vanished - The Entire Human Race - Trompe l'Oeil - LEM! - My Farewell - Moratorium - The World According to Lem - Man and Machine PART II: ESSAYS CHAPTER 3. GAME, SET, LEM Ariadne's Thread - Cold War Hysteria - The Third Pentagon - Nuclear-age Quixote - The Lottery in Babylon - I-Guess-What-You-Guess-What-I-Guess - Barnaby the Scrivener - Whoops! Apocalypse! - The Mission - Minimax/Maximin - The Mission Game - Subjective Rationality - The Collusion Game - Dead Men Don't Tell Lies - An Allegorical Everyman - The Decipherment of Linear B CHAPTER 4. BETRIZATION IS THE WORST SOLUTION'e¦ EXCEPT FOR ALL OTHERS Time Machine - Word Become Flesh - Defanging the Human Beast - La bête humaine - The Hobbesian Premise - It Can't Happen Here - 50-50 - Bennett, Trimaldi and Zakharov - The Technological Grail - Less Than Human - Chihuahuas in Eden - Nietzschean Superman - Droids, Borgs, and Bots - One for the Old Generation, One for the New - D-i-s-a-s-t-e-r CHAPTER 5. ERRARE HUMANUM EST The Invincible Has Landed - Models of Inquiry - From Literature to Biterature - The Alien as Alien - Knowledge and Metaknowledge - Regis II - Part of the Landscape - Nature Plays Fair - Ch. I., Ch.
Ph., Ch. T., Ch. B. - Omnia Vincit Armor - Dictyostelium discoideum - Overzealous Carpenters - The Infallible CHAPTER 6. A BEACHBOOK FOR INTELLECTUALS A Novel of Ideas - Gun for Hire - Whodunit with Probability as the Butler - The Devil's Parody of the Movies - The Locked Room - Terrorism Is Not a Hardware Issue - Good Cop, Bad Cop - The Garden of Earthly Delights - You, Me, Pulsars, and the Page You're Reading - Ladykillers - Hero or Not? - Runny Nose - A Writer for All Reasons PART III: CODA CHAPTER 7. FIASCO You'll See the Quintans - The War of the Worlds - Intelligent and Electronic - Let's Do It Our Way - Mark Tempe - The Digla - Crystal Ball - To Make a Long Story Short CHAPTER 8.
HAPPY END OF THE WORLD! The Blink of an Eye - Glow-In-the-Dark Monkeys - Cerebroproteinal Neuroprocessor - Encyclopedia of Ignorance APPENDIX. STANISLAW LEM: BOOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.