Originally published as Czas nieutracony: Szpital przemienienia ?1955 by Stanis?aw Lem."The Hospital of the Transfiguration is a very early novel by Lem. it was written in 1948, but supppressed by Polish censors, and was not published until 1955. The book appeared in an English translation in 1988. The censorship of this early realist novel is partly what drove Lem to write in the vein of scien…