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|title=Microworlds
|Polish title=Mój pogląd na literaturę
|English title=My View on Literature
|language=English
|country=USA
|place=New York
|publisher=Harcourt
|publication date=1986
|edition=first
|translator=Rottensteiner Franz
|translator2=Gillespie R. Bruce
|translator3=Suvin Darko
|translator4=Abernathy Robert
|cover=soft
|cover by=Likgalter Mark
|preceded_by=Rottensteiner Franz
|pages=285
|ISBN=0-15-695443-9
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|series=hbj paperback
}}

==Content:==

* Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner
* Reflections on My Life
* On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction
* Science Fiction: A Hopeless Case -- with Exceptions
* Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans
* The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of Science-Fiction Structuring
* Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction
* Cosmology and Science Fiction
* Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature
* Unitas Oppositorum: The Prose of Jorge Luis Borges
* About the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic

==Bibliography:==

===Essays===
* "About Myself," ''Poland'', no. 124 (December 1964): 12-13.

* "About the Strugatskys' ''Roadside Picnic''" ("Poslowie"), Afterword to Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's ''Piknik na skraju drogi'' (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1977); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 10, no. 31 (November 1983): 317-331.

* "Cosmology and Science Fiction" ("Science Fiction und Kosmologie"), ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 4, no. 12 (July 1977): 107-110. Reprinted in ''Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction 1976-1977'', ed. by R. D. Mullen and Darko Suvin (Boston: Gregg Press, 1978), pp. 214-217.

* "Culture and Futurology" (a chapter from Stanislaw Lem's ''Summa Technologiae''), ''Polish Perspectives'' 16, no. 1 (1973): 30-38.

* "A Kind of Credo" ("Eine Art Credo"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 31 (July 1972); in English: ''The Yale Literary Magazine'' 150, no. 5 (1984), pp. 1-2.

* "Looking Down on Science Fiction: A Novelist's Choice for the World's Worst Writing" ("Science-fiction oder die verunglückte Phantasie"), ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (February 22, 1975); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 4, no. 12 (July 1977): 126-127.

* "Metafantasia: The Possibilities of Science Fiction" ("Zakończenie metafantastyczne"), from Stanislaw Lem's ''Fantastyka i futurologia'', tom II (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1970); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 8, no. 23 (March 1981): 54-70.

* "On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction" ("Eine strukturalistische SF-Betrachtung"), Quarber Merkur 23 (May 1970); in English: as "Introduction to a Structural Analysis of SF," ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 9 (February 1970): 34-44. Reprinted in ''Science-Fiction Studies'' I, no. I (Spring 1973): 26-33, and in ''Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction'' 1973-1975, ed. by R. D. Mullen and Darko Suvin (Boston: Gregg Press, 1976), pp. 1-8.

* "Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans" ("Poslowie"), Afterword to Philip K. Dick's ''Ubik'' (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1975); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 2, no. 5 (March 1975): 54-67. Reprinted in ''Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction'' 1973-1975, ed. by R. D. Mullen and Darko Suvin (Boston: Gregg Press, 1976), pp. 210-223.

* "Planetary Chauvinism: Speculation on the 'Others' " ("Stimmen aus dem All"), ''Playboy'' (German edition), August 1977; in English: ''Second Look'' 1, no. 10 (August 1979): 5-9.

* "Poland: Science Fiction in the Linguistic Trap" ("Polen: Science Fiction in der linguistischen Falle"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 20 (August 1969); in English: ''The Journal of Omphalistic Epistemology'', Supplement No. 1 (August 1969): 1-6. Reprinted in ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 9 (February 1970): 27-33, and in ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 19 (January-February-March 1971): 89-94.

* "Reflections for 1974" ("Refleksja 1974"), ''Kultura'', no. 26 (1974); in English: ''Polish Perspectives'' 17, no. 10 (October 1974): 3-8.

* "Reflections on My Life" ("Mein Leben"), as "Chance and Order," ''The New Yorker'', January 30,1984, pp. 88-98. Reprinted as "Stanislaw Lem, 1921-" in ''Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series'', ed. by Cedria Bryfonski (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984), I, 255-266.

* "Remarks Occasioned by Dr. Plank's Essay 'Quixote's Mills,'" ''Science-Fiction Studies'' I, no. 2 (Fall 1973): 78-83.

* "Robots in Science Fiction" ("Roboter in der Science Fiction"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 21 (November 1969); in English: ''The Journal of Omphalistic Epistemology'', no. 3 (January 1970): 8-20. Reprinted in ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 19 (January-March 1971): 117-130, and in ''SF: The Other Side of Realism'', ed. by Thomas D. Clareson (Bowling Green, Ohio: The Popular Press, 1971), pp. 307-326.

* "Science Fiction: A Hopeless Case - with Exceptions" ("Science Fiction: Ein hoffnungsloser Fall - mit Ausnahmen"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 29 (January 1972); in English: ''Science Fiction Commentary'', nos. 35-37 (July-September 1973): 7-35. Reprinted in ''Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd'', ed. by Bruce Gillespie (Melbourne: Norstrilia Press, 1975), pp. 69-94. "Appendix: Ubik as Science Fiction" reprinted, as "Science and Reality in Philip K. Dick's ''Ubik''," in ''A Multitude of Visions'', ed. by Cy Chauvin (Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1975), pp. 35-39.

* "Sex in Science Fiction" ("Sex in Science Fiction"), ''Quarber Merkur 25'' (January 1971); in English: ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 22 (July 1971): 2-10, 40-49.

* "The Ten Commandments: Some Remarks on 'Paingod and Other Stories' by Harlan Ellison," untitled letter in ''Quarber Merkur'' 20 (August 1969); in English: ''The Journal of Omphalistic Epistemology'', Supplement No. I (August 1969): 6-7. Reprinted, as "The Ten Commandments for Reading the Magazines," in ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 6 (September 1969): 26; in ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 19 (January-March 1971): 94-96; and in S''cience Fiction Commentary Reprint Edition: First Year 1969, SF Commentary Nos''. 1-8, ed. by Bruce Gillespie (Melbourne: Bruce Gillespie, 1982), p. 106.

* "The Time-Travel Story and Related Matters of Science Fiction Structuring" ("Struktura świata i struktura dzieła II: Fantastyka"), from Stanislaw Lem's ''Fantastyka i futurologia'', tom I (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1970); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' I, no. 3 (Spring 1974): 143-154. Reprinted in ''Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles on Science Fiction'' 1973-1975, ed. by R. D. Mullen and Darko Suvin (Boston: Gregg Press, 1976), pp. 16-27, and in Science Fiction, ed. by Mark Rose (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976), pp. 72-88.

* "To My Readers,"Poland, no. 225 (May 1973): 6-9.

* "Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature" ("Tzvetana Todorova fantastyczna teoria literatury"), ''Teksty'' 5, no. II (1973); as "Tzvetan Todorovs Theorie des Phantastischen," ''Quarber Merkur'' 34 (July 1973); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' I, no. 4 (Fall 1974): 227-237.

* "Unitas Oppositorum: The Prose of Jorge Luis Borges" ("Unitas Oppositorum: Das Prosawerk des J. L. Borges"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 24 (January 1971); in English: ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 20 (April 1971): 33-38, Reprinted in ''edge'', nos. 5/6 (Autumn/Winter 1973): 99-102.

===Interviews===

* "Amazing Interview: A Conversation with Stanislaw Lem," by L. W. Michaelson, ''Amazing Science Fiction Stories'' 27, no. 10 (January 1981): 116-119.
* "The Future Without a Future: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," by Zoran Zivkovic, ''Pacific Quarterly'' 4, no. 3 (July 1979): 255-259.
* "An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," by Anne Brewster, ''Science Fiction'' 4, no. I (n.d.): 6-8.
* "An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," by Peter Engel (with John Sigda), ''The Missouri Review'' 7, no. 2 (1984): 218-237.
* "An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," by Raymond Federman, ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 10, no. 29 (March 1983): 2-14.
* "Knowing Is the Hero of My Books," by Andrzej Ziembicki, ''Polish Perspectives'', 22, no. 9 (September 1979): 64-69.
* "Lem: Science Fiction's Passionate Realist," by Peter Engel, ''The New York Times Book Review'', March 20,1983, pp. 7, 34-35.
* "Promethean Fire: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," ''Soviet Literature'' 5, no. 239 (1968): 166-170.
* "Stanislaw Lem -- an Interview," by Daniel Say, ''Entropy Negative'', no. 6 (1973): 3-24 (unnumbered). Reprinted, as "An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," in ''The Alien Critic'' 3, no. 10 (August 1974): 4-14.
* "Stanislaw Lem: The Profession of Science Fiction XV: Answers to a Questionnaire," ''Foundation'', no. 15 (January 1979): 41-50.
* "You Must Pay for Any Progress: An Interview with the Polish SF Writer Stanislaw Lem," by Bozena Janicka, ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 12 (June 1970): 19-24. Reprinted from ''Sovetskaya Kultura'', November 30, 1968.

===Letters===

* June 24, 1970. ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 14 (August 1970): 5-6, 20.
* January 13, 1972. ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 26 (April 1972): 28-29.
* "A Letter to Mr. Farmer." ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 29 (August 1972): 10-12.
* May 7,1972. ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 29 (August 1972): 9, 43-44.
* September 9, 1974. ''Science Fiction Commentary'', nos. 41/42 (February 1975): 90-92.
* "In Response" (to criticism of his "Todorov's Fantastic Theory of Literature"). ''Science- Fiction Studie''s 2, no. 6 (July 1975): 16-17.
* "In Response (to Professor Benford's remarks on Lem's essay "Cosmology and Science Fiction"). ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 5, no. 14 (March 1978): 92-93.
* February 6,1980. ''Science Fiction Commentary'', nos. 60/61 (June 1981): 4.

===Reviews===

* "From Big Bang to Heat Death," extract from "Von Wissenschaft und Pseudowissenschaft," ''Quarber Merkur'' 52 (January 1980); in English: ''Second Look'' 2, no.2 (January-February 1980): 38-39. On Paul Davies's ''The Runaway Universe''.
* "Lost Opportunities" ("M. K. Josephs Roman The Hole in the Zero"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 27 (July 1971) and untitled review, ''Quarber Merkur'' 25, (January 1971); in English: ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 24 (November 1971): 17-24. ''On The Hole in the Zero'' by M. K. Joseph, and ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' by Ursula K. Le Guin.
* "Only a Fairy Tale," untitled review in ''Quarber Merkur'' 31 (July 1972); in English: ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 51 (March 1977): 8-9. On Robert Silverberg's ''A Time of Changes''.
* "On Science, Pseudo-Science, and Some SF" ("Von Wissenschaft und Pseudowissenschaft"), ''Quarber Merkur'' 52 (January 1980); in English: ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 7, no. 22 (November 1980): 330-338. ''On Other Senses, Other Worlds'' by Doris and David Jonas; ''Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation'' by Joseph Weizenbaum; ''Worlds in Collision'' by Immanuel Velikovsky; ''Lifetide: The Biology of the Unconscious'' by Lyall Watson; ''The Martian Inca'' by Ian Watson; ''The Crash of Seventy-Nine'' by Paul Erdman; and ''The Third World War'': August 1985 by Sir John Hackett.
* "Robbers of the Future" (by Sakyo Komatsu), review in ''Quarber Merkur'' 27 (July 1971); in English: ''Science Fiction Commentary'', no. 23 (September 1971): 17-18.
* "The Space Flight Revolution" (by William Sims Bainbridge), ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 6, no. 18 (July 1979): 221-222.
* "Two Ends of the World" (by Antoni Slonimski), review in ''Quarber Merkur'' 57 (July
1982); in English: ''The Missouri Review'' 7, no. 2 (1984), pp. 238-242.