Title: Biała śmierć

Title: Title Record # 837543
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Date: 1964-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Bajki robotów (Robots' Fables)
Language: Polish

Note: Lem's biographer Alfred Gall characterizes this story as exemplary for Lem's work (in that its theme is the role of chance for a best laid plan)

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1973^ⓘTranslated by Irmtraud Zimmermann-Göllheim	German	Der Weiße Tod^?Der Weisse Tod
1976^ⓘTranslated by Mihai Mitu	Romanian	Moartea albă^?Moartea alba
1977	English	The White Death [as by Stanislaw Lem]
1979^ⓘTranslated by Dominique Sila	French	La mort blanche [as by Stanislas Lem]
1980^ⓘTranslated by Marcel Bieger, using the English version published in Jakubowski's anthology	German	Der weiße Tod^?Der weisse Tod [as by Stanislaw Lem]
2020^ⓘ Translated by Adrian Cvitanović	Croatian	Bijela smrt

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Bajki robotów	1964-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Wydawnictwo Literackie				unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	coll
Robotermärchen^?Robotermaerchen	1973-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Suhrkamp (Bibliothek Suhrkamp #366)	BS0366	DM 9.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	219	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Robotermärchen^?Robotermaerchen	1974-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Suhrkamp (Bibliothek Suhrkamp #366)	BS0366	DM 9.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	219	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Ciberiada	1976-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Editura Albatros (Fantastic Club)			302	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pompiliu Dumitrescu
Mortal Engines	1977-00-00	Stanislaw Lem	Seabury Press (Continuum Book)	0-8164-9296-4	$9.95^?$: US dollar	xxiv+ 239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Max Ernst
Vingt maisons du Zodiaque	1979-06-01	ed. Maxim Jakubowski	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #279)			270	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Stéphane Dumont^?Stephane Dumont
Twenty Houses of the Zodiac	1979-07-00	ed. Maxim Jakubowski	New English Library	0-450-04333-9	£1.25^?£: UK pound	237	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Tim White
Quasar 2	1980-04-00	ed. Maxim Jakubowski	Bastei Lübbe^?Bastei Luebbe ( Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller^?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Bestseller #22019)	3-404-22019-6	DM 5.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	285+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Tim White
Mortal Engines	1982-01-00	Stanislaw Lem	Bard / Avon Books	0-380-57406-3	$2.95^?$: US dollar	xxiv+ 239	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Robotermärchen^?Robotermaerchen	1982-11-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Suhrkamp (Phantastische Bibliothek #85)	3-518-37356-0	DM 8.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	149	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Bajki robotów	1983-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza	83-03-00014-4	zł 35.00^?zł: Polish zloty	206	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Waldemar Andrzejewski
Robotermärchen^?Robotermaerchen	1983-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Suhrkamp (Phantastische Bibliothek #85)	3-518-37356-0	DM 8.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	149	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Contes inoxydables	1989-08-00	Stanislas Lem	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #330)	2-207-50330-5	F29.00^?F: French frank	199	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Zorin (French) , Mïrka^?Mirka
Cyberiada	1991-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Verba	83-85061-07-X		335	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Daniel Mróz^?Daniel Mroz
Mortal Engines	1992-00-00	Stanislaw Lem	Harvest / HBJ	0-15-662161-4	$8.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 239	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	John Alfred Dorn, III
Mortal Engines	1993-06-00	Stanislaw Lem	Andre Deutsch	0-233-98819-X	£12.99^?£: UK pound	xii+ 239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	John Alfred Dorn, III
Ciberiada	1994-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Editura Nemira (Nautilus #042)	973-569-032-2	Lei 4,000^?Lei: Romanian leu	440	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Tudor Popa
Phantastische Bibliothek: Die andere Zukunft	1999-00-00	uncredited	Suhrkamp (Phantastische Bibliothek #368)	3-518-06579-3		177+ 246+ 149+ 122+ 165+ 215+ 227	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Gregory Heisler
Robotermärchen^?Robotermaerchen	2009-12-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Suhrkamp (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch #4136)	978-3-518-46136-5	€7.50^?€: Euro	149+ [22]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Nina Knapitsch
Mortal Engines	2016-10-01	Stanislaw Lem	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-241-26908-4	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Mortal Engines	2016-10-06	Stanislaw Lem	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-241-26907-7	£9.99^?£: UK pound	240	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Three Electroknights	2018-02-22	Stanislaw Lem	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern #9)	978-0-241-33939-8	£1.00^?£: UK pound	[6]+ 52	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Bajke o robotima	2020-00-00	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem	Hangar 7 (Arakis #05)	978-953-8048-95-1	kn 99^?kn: Croatian kuna	207	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Davorin Horak , Ivana Vukelić^?Ivana Vukelich Ivana Vukelic
Mortal Engines	date unknown	Stanislaw Lem	Harvest / HBJ	0-15-662161-4	$15.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 239	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	John Alfred Dorn, III

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Reviews

Review [German] by Alfred Gall (2021) in
Stanisław Lem: Leben in der Zukunft^?Stanislaw Lem: Leben in der Zukunft