A space cruiser encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines in this sci-fi classic with echoes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne! “A giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Philip...
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This collection of short stories centers around one character, space traveller Ijon Tichy. In these stories, Stanislaw Lem''s ""Candide of the Cosmos"" encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the ra...
An 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 most macabre and unusual w...
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 outsi...
An 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 comparison” (The Washington ...
Meet 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 follows the adventures of Ijon ...
Commander 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 Iribarne, assisted by Magdalen...
Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris. “The universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanis,aw Lem.” ...
These 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 science of "bitistics." "Lem, a ...
The 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 and scathin...
Essays 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 and technology -- w...
The 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. Fortunately, these rare...
The 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 analysis of the genre for whi...
An 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 tells the story of a young do...
Brilliant 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 ready to colonize the solar ...
These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem''s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. Written in the form of grotesque folk fairy tales, these stories about robot kings,...
Robot 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 powers of Earth hav...
A 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 was a monster,” he o...
Alone in his broken spaceship-with no one there to help him-he could remain trappedin space indefinitely! But soon something strange begins to happen: Tichy's past and future selves appear. And rather than helping one another, they bicker and ...
Twelve 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, making this the first "new...
An 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 are disappearing. The ini...