In later years he would call himself both an agnostic and an atheist. the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created. He later became an atheist 'for moral reasons. In later years Lem sometimes claimed to have been raised Roman Catholic, but he went to Jewish religious lessons during his school years. He was the son of Sabina née Woller (1892–1979) and Samuel Lem (1879–1954), a wealthy laryngologist and former physician in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and first cousin to Polish poet Marian Hemar (Lem's father's sister's son). According to his own account, he was actually born on 13 September, but the date was changed to the 12th on his birth certificate because of superstition. Lem was born in 1921 in Lwów, interwar Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). 4 on Bohdan Lepky Street in Lviv, where, according to his autobiography Highcastle, Lem spent his childhood The Polish Parliament declared 2021 Stanisław Lem Year. Translating his works is difficult due to Lem's elaborate neologisms and idiomatic wordplay. His essays and philosophical books cover these and many other topics. Lem's science fiction works explore philosophical themes through speculations on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of communication with and understanding of alien intelligence, despair about human limitations, and humanity's place in the universe. Lem is the author of the fundamental philosophical work Summa Technologiae, in which he anticipated the creation of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and also developed the ideas of human autoevolution, the creation of artificial worlds, and many others. In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies.

Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Stanisław Herman Lem ( Polish: ( listen) 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism.

Korkunun Bütün Sesleri by Stanisław Lem