I was able to edit the above in order to add a comment to the Lem story, then hit submit, and ended up in a separate thread??? where there was only my modified comment. But here that was not changed. So I am adding here as a comment on the one above the intended information:
Lem’s story’s theme echoes that of another Science Fiction Great, Olaf Stapledon, who nearly thirty years earlier had published the novel “Star Maker”:
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