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''The Man from Mars'' ((ポーランド語:Człowiek z Marsa)) is a "first contact" science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem: American scientists are trying to deal with a creature in a crashed spaceship from Mars. ==Publication history== It was Lem's first science fiction work, serialized in a Katowice weekly, ''Nowy Świat Przygód'' ("New Adventure World") in 1946, starting in the first issue.〔("From "Nowy Świat Przygód” (“New World of Adventures”) to "Świat Młodych” (“The Young People’s World”): The Evolution of a Cartoon Magazine for Children and Teenagers in 1946–1949" ), by Adam Rusek, ''Rocznik Historii Prasy Polskiej'', Vol XIV (2011) No. 1-2 (27-28), p .175 *''Note'': Lem, in his comentary on the novel gives a different title of the weekly, ''Co Tydzień Powieść'' ("A Novel Every Week"), printed by the same publisher in Katowice 〕 Lem considered it extremely naive and weak; he said he wrote it exclusively "for bread", and refused to reprint it for a long time.〔(Lem's comentary ) on the novel〕 Some Polish sci-fi fanclubs produced small editions of pirated reprints. Later it was printed legally several times in Germany, where a publishing house had rights for Lem's juvenilia. The first legal Polish reprint, in book format, was in 1994 (ISBN 8370540686) Independent Publishing House NOWA.〔 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 an online literary magazine Words Without Borders.〔("Man from Mars" ), an excerpt 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Man from Mars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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