Stanislaw Lem dies

I loved him as a writter but i loved him even more as an esseist and futurolog. Some of his books were SF and some werent. I liked his "Star Diaries", "Ivestigation" and "Hospital of Transfiguration".

I consider his leaving as personal lost. He was often in Polish TV talking about future, i was use to watch him everytime i had a chance. Maybe now he talks with his archenemy, american writter Philip K Dick who stated that such person - Lem - does not exist.

I have never think about it. I got no idea how did Lem sound in different languages. In Polish he was brillant. In other languages its all about good and bad translators.

i know, i wanted to say that Dick considered Lem as an archenemy. Actually i like both of them. I guess Asimov didnt like Lem much too because once Lem used mathematic logic equaling to show that Asimov's "rights of robotics" are not logic, have no sence and are contradictory.

ABOUT LEM

from

http://www.lem.pl/english/main.htm

Lem's crude, insulting and downright ignorant attacks on American science fiction writers went too far too fast and alienated everyone.

Philip K Dick

Why was Stanislaw Lem expelled from the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America)  in 1976?

The following quote from J. Madison Davis' book on Stanislaw Lem gives an answer to your question:

  Lem has always been critical of most science fiction, which he considers ill thought out, poorly written, and interested more in adventure that ideas or new literary forms.  (...) Those opinions provoked an unpleasant debade in the SFWA [the "Lem affair"].  Philip Jos� Farmer and others were incensed by Lem's comments (...) and eventually brought about the removal of the honorary membership(...).  Other members, such as Ursula K. Le Guin, then protested the removal (...) and the SFWA then offered Lem a regular membership, which he, of course, refused in 1976.  Asked later about the "affair," he remarked, that his opinions  of the state of science fiction were already known when he was offered an honorary membership (...).  He also added he harboured no ill feelings towards the SFWA or U.S. writers in particular, "...but it would be a lie to say the whole incident has enlarged my respect for SF writers".