[{"n": "The Chain of Chance", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/the-chain-of-chance/", "s": "A detective novel where chance itself is the suspect."}, {"n": "Fiasco (novel)", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/fiasco-novel/", "s": "A novel about failed first contact with alien civilization."}, {"n": "The Futurological Congress", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/the-futurological-congress/", "s": "A satirical novel where hallucinogenic drugs replace reality."}, {"n": "Golem XIV", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/golem-xiv/", "s": "A superintelligent computer that pauses its own evolution to lecture humanity."}, {"n": "His Master's Voice (novel)", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/his-master-s-voice-novel/", "s": "A philosophical novel about decoding an alien signal."}, {"n": "The Invincible", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/the-invincible/", "s": "A hard SF novel about microrobots and artificial swarm intelligence."}, {"n": "The Magellanic Cloud", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/the-magellanic-cloud/", "s": "1955 Polish sci-fi novel set in a communistic Utopian future."}, {"n": "The Man from Mars", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/the-man-from-mars/", "s": "Lem's first science fiction novel, serialized in 1946."}, {"n": "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/memoirs-found-in-a-bathtub/", "s": "A Kafkaesque diary from a future bureaucratic dystopia."}, {"n": "Observation on the Spot", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/observation-on-the-spot/", "s": "Ijon Tichy investigates a planet split by two absurd ideologies."}, {"n": "Peace on Earth (novel)", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/peace-on-earth-novel/", "s": "Satirical novel about the arms race moved to the Moon."}, {"n": "Professor A. Dońda", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/professor-a-do-da/", "s": "The scientist whose theorem turned every digital archive on Earth to ash."}, {"n": "Return from the Stars", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/return-from-the-stars/", "s": "A cosmonaut returns to a pacified Earth he no longer recognizes."}, {"n": "Solaris (novel)", "u": "/e/novels-by-stanis-aw-lem/solaris-novel/", "s": "A novel about the futility of communicating with an alien ocean."}]