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An author with this first name wrote a novel about a brewer’s son who falls in with the hunchbacked Putricides and the seductive Princess di Ticonderoga. In a novel by an author with this first name, a man gives a speech that claims, “We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors.” An author with this first name wrote a novel in which Zip succumbs to the soma-like Murti-Bing pill amid a Chinese invasion. (15[1]-5[1])The first chapter of (*) The Captive Mind discusses that novel by an author nicknamed “Witkacy” (“VEET-kotz-eh”) with this first name, titled Insatiability. An author with this first name wrote a novel whose protagonist arrives at a research site after the suicide (10[1])of Gibarian, where he meets Snaut, Sartorius, and a copy of his dead wife. (10[1])In that novel, Kris Kelvin investigates a sentient ocean on the title planet. For 10 points, give this first name of the Polish author of Solaris. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Stanisław [accept Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz; accept Stanisław Lem]
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Ariel FaederThe Present King of James is BaldHouston Junior College12810
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