A Perfect Vacuum
Ingenious essays from "a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept... from free will to probability theory" (The New York Times Book Review). In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps... See More
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Quick ViewIngenious essays from "a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept... from free will to probability theory" (The New York Times Book Review). In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps... See More
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Quick ViewIjon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author... See More
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Quick View"Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines." -- The New York Times Book Review These are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known... See More
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Quick ViewThe Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. "Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem." -- The Paris Review Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation... See More
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Quick ViewEssays by the author of Solaris: "Lem's delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity's possible fate" (Publishers Weekly). In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world... See More
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Quick ViewCommander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis... See More
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Quick ViewThese wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the... See More
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Quick ViewThe author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial... See More
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Quick ViewThe absurdly brilliant far-future satire from "the Borges of scientific culture" (Time). The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight -- papyralysis -- has obliterated much of the planet's written history... See More
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Quick ViewRobot armies, an arms race in space, and a brain at war with itself add up to "a futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (The Boston Phoenix). Anxious to avoid a war that would destroy the entire planet, the major... See More
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Quick ViewAn ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prize-winning author of Solaris. Vacation is supposed to be relaxing. But while traveling in Naples, several American tourists die in a... See More
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Quick ViewFrom the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates "a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad" (Kirkus Reviews). Six explorers -- the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist... See More
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Quick ViewBrilliant stories of a bumbling astronaut, and the human desire to discover the unknown, by the much-loved author of Solaris. Set in the not-too-distant future, when space flight has evolved to the point where humanity is... See More
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Quick ViewAn eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize-winning author. The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies... See More
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Quick ViewMeet Ijon Tichy -- a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and other puzzling phenomena -- in this collection from a science fiction legend. Memoirs of a Space Traveler... See More
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Quick ViewAn astronaut returns to Earth after a 10-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes in science fiction novel by the Solaris author, whose works "make our weary universe seem pale and undistinguished by... See More
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Quick View«Solaris è una gemma abbagliante, la tragedia di Orfeo e Euridice dei nostri tempi, il testo per noi più alto dell'ultima letteratura polacca» (Oreste del Buono, La Stampa-Tuttolibri). Per la prima volta la traduzione... See More
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Quick ViewFrom the critically acclaimed author of Solaris comes a classic sci-fi tale about scientists who must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space -- for fans of Arrival By pure chance, scientists detect a... See More
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Quick ViewTwelve stories by science fiction master Stanis?aw Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanis?aw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English... See More
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Quick ViewA playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanis?aw Lem. With Highcastle, Stanis?aw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful -- "I... See More
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Quick ViewA space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanis?aw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space... See More
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Quick ViewAn early realist novel by Stanis?aw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanis?aw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration... See More
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Quick ViewRobot is comprised of graphic adaptations of two robot-themed tales from Stanis?aw Lem's Mortal Engines. Danusia Schejbal adapts "Uranium Earpieces", in which a paranoid king forces his subjects to wear suits of glowing... See More