THE CYBERIAD: FABLES FOR THE CYBERNETIC AGE

摘要

One of my life's biggest regrets is my interview with Stanislaw Lem in 1996 - the interview that never took place. I was in Krakow recording a programme for BBC Radio 4 when I remembered that Lem, one of my favourite writers of all time, was still living there. On my request, our Polish fixer got hold of his home phone number, and I had a brief conversation with Lem's wife who said that he was not feeling very well, but would still give me an interview. She added that the interview was to be conducted in German, because Lem did not speak any English, and my Polish was less than basic. The problem was that my German was even more basic than that, read non-existent! So the interview never took place.