Science-fiction author Stanislaw Lem died at the age of 84 after a battle with heart disease in his home city of Krakow.

Stanislaw Lem, whose books have sold more than 27 million copies and have been translated into 41 language, won widespread acclaim for The Cyberiad, stories from a mechanical world ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974.

Lem was also well-known for criticizing the films based on his work. Solaris, published in 1961 and set on an isolated space stations, was made into a film epic 10 years later by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky which he claimed to be "Crime and Punishment in space."

Solaris was remade in 2002 by Steven Sodebergh and starring George Clooney.

Stanislaw Lem had been treated over the past few weeks for circulatory problems, Andrzej Kulig, director of the Jagiellonian University hospital told Reuters.

After the fall of communism in 1989 Stanislaw Lem almost retired from writing instead devoting himself to reports on near-future predictions for governments and organizations.

Stanislaw Lem wrote essays about human technological progress and the problem of human existence in a world where technology development makes biological human impulses obsolete or dangerous.

Stanislaw Lem became increasingly critical of modern technology in his later life, criticizing inventions such as the Internet.

SOURCES: YAHOO NEWS, WIKIPEDIA

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