He wrote essays on computer crime, as well as about technological and ethical problems posed by the expansion of the internet. After the fall of communism in 1989 Lem ceased writing science-fiction, instead devoting himself to reports on near-future predictions for governments and organisations. Following the war, communist censorship blocked the publication of his earliest writings. Lem, born on September 12, 1921, in what is now the Ukrainian city of Lviv, studied medicine before World War Two. "Stanislaw Lem died in the heart clinic, where he had been treated over the past few weeks for circulatory problems," Andrzej Kulig, director of the Jagiellonian University hospital, told Reuters. A 2002 Hollywood remake directed by Steven Sodebergh starred George Clooney. "Solaris," published in 1961 and set on an isolated space station, was made into a film epic 10 years later by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Lem, whose books have sold more than 27 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages, won widespread acclaim for "The Cyberiad," stories from a mechanical world ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974. His novel 'Solaris' has been adapted to screen twice, by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. KRAKOW, Poland - Polish author Stanislaw Lem, one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, has died in his home city of Krakow at the age of 84 after a battle with heart disease. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was a Polish satirical and philosophical science fiction writer, the most celebrated SF author in the Communist world.
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