Stanislaw Lem
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer.
Original title: Dzienniki gwiazdowe (1957, expanded 1971). This short story collection was published in two volumes, The Star Diaries (1976) and Memoirs of a Space Traveller: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (1982).