New Delhi: With the view to mark the 60th anniversary of Stanislaw Lem's first book, Google has designed one of its most wonderful doodles on the Google Russia homepage (www.google.ru). The doodle, which is a little animated puzzle game is said to be inspired by The Cyerberiad, a series of short stories written by Lem about a robot universe.
The animated doodle features a character that resembles Lem who, after some thought, comes face to face with a mammoth robot. People, who are visiting Google, can use their cursor to interact with the robot, whose chest contains a rather unreliable calculator. The animation sequence ends with the message that the art was inspired by Daniel Mroz's illustrations for The Cyberiad.
Stanislaw Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. The writer produced a range of poems, essays and short stories during the late 1940s and 1950s, but his first major work - Hospital of the Transfiguration - was published in 1955. The Cyberiad, which was a key work, was published in 1965. However, Solaris remains Lem's best known work – first published in 1961. Later, it was made into a film in 1972 by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and the US director Steven Soderbergh in 2002. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies.
He died in 2006 at the age of 84 due to heart disease.
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