General Theory of Everything

The General Theory of Everything (Polish: Ogólna Teoria Wszystkiego) is a sarcastic coinage of Stanisław Lem introduced in 1966. The biographical sketch of Ijon Tichy in "The Twenty-eighth Voyage" of Tychy's Star Diaries says that a grandfather of Ijon, Jeremiasz Tichy, "decided to create the General Theory of Everything, and nothing stopped him from doing this".^[1]

Apart of being a precursor of the term "Theory of Everything," the term GTE was used to characterize Lem's essays of fundamental character, such as The Philosophy of Chance^[2] and Science Fiction and Futurology.^[3]

References

↑ Krzysztof J. Kilian , "Sny o teoriach ostatecznych a problem przyszłości filozofii, ("Dreams about Ultimate Theories and the Problem of the Future of Phylosophy") ΣΟΦΙΑ, no. 8, 2008
↑ An annotation to Filozofia przypadku. Tom 1
↑ "Fantastyka i futurologia", at Lem's official website

Works of Stanisław Lem

Novels

Time Not Lost
- Hospital of the Transfiguration (1948)
The Astronauts (1951)
The Magellanic Cloud (1955)
The Investigation (1959)
Eden (1959)
Return from the Stars (1961)
Solaris (1961)
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (1961)
The Invincible (1964)
His Master's Voice (1968)
The Futurological Congress (1971)
The Chain of Chance (1975)
Golem XIV (1981)
Observation on the Spot (1982)
Fiasco (1986)
Peace on Earth (1987)

Short story collections

Essays

Pseudepigraphy

Adaptations

Films	First Spaceship on Venus (1960) Ikarie XB-1 (1963) Solaris (1968) Roly Poly (1968) Solaris (1972) Test pilota Pirxa (1979) Victim of the Brain (1988) Solaris (2002) 1 (2009) The Congress (2013)

TV	Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot (2007) End of the World at Eight O'Clock (2015)

Characters

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