• Publication: Biblioteka XXI wiekuPublication Record # 252115
• Author:
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
• Date: 1986-00-00
• ISBN: 83-08-01433-X [978-83-08-01433-2]
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Literackie
• Price:
  zł 130^?zł: Polish zloty
• Pages: 106+5
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: All stories are dated (Berlin, May 1983; 1983; Berlin 1982, in order of the contents listing). All the stories have title pages, where the titles are printed in capital letters. In the case of Jedna minuta, above the beginning of the text, info on the fictional publication described in this story is printed instead of the story title. The last three pages contain a short excerpt from an unfinished essay on S. Lem's works, by J. Jarzębski. The publisher's note (on the last printed page, p.108) states:

  • Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków Wrocław 1986
  • Ed.: I
  • Number of copies printed: 100 000 + 350
  • Printing finished: March 1986
  • Cover design: Władysław Targosz

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Das kreative Vernichtungsprinzip: The World as Holocaust • [The Apocryphs] • short fiction by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
• 43 • Weapon Systems of the Twenty First Century or the Upside-Down Evolution • [The Apocryphs] • short fiction by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
• 83 • Jedna minuta • [The Apocryphs] • (1984) • short fiction by
  Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem