Editing Stanisław Lem (section)

===Final years===
From the late 1980s onwards, Lem tended to concentrate on philosophical texts and essays, published in Polish magazines including ''Tygodnik Powszechny'', ''[[Odra (magazine)|Odra]]'', and ''[[Przegląd]]''.<ref name=TF/><ref name=PWN/> These were later collected in a number of anthologies.<ref name=TF/>

In early 1980s literary critic and historian [[Stanisław Bereś]] conducted a lengthy interview with Lem, which was published in book format in 1987 as ''[[Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem]]'' (''Conversations with Stanisław Lem)''. That edition was subject to censorship. A revised, complete edition was published in 2002 as ''Tako rzecze… Lem'' (''Thus spoke... Lem'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,75517,909390.html?disableRedirects=true|title=Tako rzecze...Lem, Bereś, Stanisław|last=Orliński|first=Wojciech|date=1 July 2002|website=Gazeta Wyborcza|language=pl|access-date=29 March 2019|archive-date=29 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329134918/http://wyborcza.pl/1,75517,909390.html?disableRedirects=true|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the early 1990s, Lem met with the literary critic and scholar [[Peter Swirski]] for a series of extensive interviews, published together with other critical materials and translations as ''[[A Stanislaw Lem Reader]]'' (1997). In these interviews Lem speaks about a range of issues he rarely discussed previously. The book also includes Swirski's translation of Lem's retrospective essay "Thirty Years Later", devoted to Lem's nonfictional treatise ''Summa Technologiae''. During later interviews in 2005, Lem expressed his disappointment with the genre of science fiction, and his general pessimism regarding technical progress. He viewed the human body as unsuitable for space travel, held that information technology [[Lem's Law|drowns people in a glut of low-quality information]], and considered truly intelligent robots as both undesirable and impossible to construct.<ref name="zeit"/>