The crew of a remote space station is strangely influenced by the living ocean occupying a whole planet while they attempt communication with it.

Solaris (1961) – science fiction novel.

Translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980) An astronaut returns to Earth after a 127-year long mission.

Return from the Stars (1961) – science fiction novel.

Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose (New York: The Seabury Press, 1973)

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961) – 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.

The book was made into a short film of the same name by Marek Piestrak in 1973. Translated by Adele Milch (New York: The Seabury Press, 1974).

The Investigation (1959) – philosophical mystery novel.

The Hunt (1950s) – short story, found in Lem's archives and published in 2018.

Heine (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989).

Eden (1959) – science fiction novel after crashing their spaceship on the planet Eden, the crew discovers it is populated with an unusual society.

The Magellanic Cloud (1955) – the first interstellar travel of mankind to the Alpha Centauri system.A spaceship sent to investigate finds that Venusians killed themselves in atomic war first. In early 21st century, it is discovered that Tunguska meteorite was a crash of a reconnaissance ship from Venus, bound to invade the Earth. The Astronauts (1951) – young adult science fiction novel.In Poland it was made into a film in 1979. It was published in expanded form in 1955 as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia, and translated into English by William Brand (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988). Hospital of the Transfiguration (1948) – partly autobiographical novella about a doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II, centred on a German Nazi euthanasia program Action T4.

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.

The Man from Mars (1946) – short novel, originally published in a magazine serial form.His works were translated into 40 languages and over 30 million copies have been sold. Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer, best known for his science fiction. This the list of works of Stanisław Lem and its adaptations.

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