![]() The second potential audience-segment consists of people who have read at least a couple of Lem’s books, maybe several more, and who know a little about him (his scathing attacks on SF, for instance, especially American SF, though he owed his fame and his vast international readership largely to devotees of that genre). They may have seen his name mentioned they may even have seen one or both of the film versions of his 1961 novel Solaris, the first by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1971, the second by Steven Soderbergh in 2002 but they haven’t read any of his books. First, people who are unacquainted with the work of the Polish science-fiction writer and polymath Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006). Well then, the potential audience for this piece consists of three groups. They say-the experts, I mean-that “know your audience” is the writer’s first commandment. ![]() A Feature Review of The Invincible: A Novel ![]()
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