
The book was made into a short film of the same name by Marek Piestrak in 1973. Translated by Adele Milch (New York: The Seabury Press, 1974). The Investigation (1959) – philosophical mystery novel.The Hunt (1950s) – short story, found in Lem's archives and published in 2018.Heine (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989). Eden (1959) – science fiction novel after crashing their spaceship on the planet Eden, the crew discovers it is populated with an unusual society.The Magellanic Cloud (1955) – the first interstellar travel of mankind to the Alpha Centauri system.A spaceship sent to investigate finds that Venusians killed themselves in atomic war first. In early 21st century, it is discovered that Tunguska meteorite was a crash of a reconnaissance ship from Venus, bound to invade the Earth. The Astronauts (1951) – young adult science fiction novel.In Poland it was made into a film in 1979. It was published in expanded form in 1955 as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia, and translated into English by William Brand (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988). Hospital of the Transfiguration (1948) – partly autobiographical novella about a doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II, centred on a German Nazi euthanasia program Action T4.

In 2009 for the first time a long excerpt from Chapter 1 was translated into English by Peter Swirski and published, with permission of Lem's family, in the online literary magazine Words Without Borders.

Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer, best known for his science fiction. This the list of works of Stanisław Lem and its adaptations.
