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Anne Applebaum

In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. <i>Red Famine </i>shows how this …

Stanislaw Lem

There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'The planet …

Stanislaw Lem

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a …

Stanislaw Lem

"This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management".Both gruesome and very funny, The Futurological Congress is the story of an ill-fated …

Stanislaw Lem

'On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of …

Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller …

Anne Applebaum

For a thousand years, the geography of Europe's borderlands had dictated their destiny. East of Poland, west of Russia, the …

Czeslaw Milosz

This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such …

Stanislaw Lem

Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...Trurl and Klapaucius …

Czeslaw Milosz

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In <i>Native …

Halik Kochanski

By almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the …

Anne Applebaum

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe …