Posts tagged with “Stanislaw Lem”
- noun
- An airborne swarm of self-organising inanimate matter.
- Origin
- Nekrós (“the dead”).
- Source
- The Invincible
- noun
- The ontology of nothingness.
- Origin
- Derived from neán (young).
- Source
- The Sanatorium of Dr Vliperdius
- noun
- A carnivore.
- Source
- The Star Diaries: The Eighth Voyage
- verb
- The dissolution, dissociation, and total dissipation of a monarch.
- Origin
- Formed from ‘monarch’ and lúsis (loosening).
- Source
- The Cyberiad
- noun
- An erotifying device stochastic, elastic and orgiastic.
- Source
- The Cyberiad
- noun
- A sentient oceanic life form covering the surface of the planet Solaris.
- Origin
- Polús (many), possibly in combination with thera (“of her”).
- Source
- Solaris