The Star Diaries

Name: The Star Diaries
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780241240021
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By (author): Stanislaw Lem

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York Times

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers

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Weight: 260g
Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
Publication Date: 31 Dec 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780241240021

About Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad Mortal Engines The Star Diaries The Futurological Congress Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.

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