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Imaginary Greatness ( Polish: Wielkość urojona ) is a philosophical work by Stanisław Lem from 1973 . It contains fictitious forewords to - according to Lem - works that will appear in the future. These deal with future technology and future thinking. Stanisław Lem himself writes in the foreword to these forewords:

“The art of writing forewords has long been claiming a right of home. And I have long felt the need to satisfy this occupied literature, which has been silent about itself for forty centuries in the slavery of the works to which it is bound . "

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literature

  • Stanislaw Lem: Imaginary size (= Fantastic Library. Bd. 335 = Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch 2580). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-518-39080-5 .