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Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth ...Show more
Highcastle - A Remembrance by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem. With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful--"I was a monster," he observes ruefully--this lively and charming book describes a ...Show more
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders--even whether or not they e ...Show more
Hospital of the Transfiguration by Stanislaw Lem; William R. Brand
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. A ...Show more
Memoirs of a Space Traveler by Stanislaw Lem; Joel Stern; Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek; Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena. Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange ex ...Show more
Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artifici ...Show more
Return from the Stars by Stanislaw Lem; Barbara Marsza; Frank Simpson
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: The MIT Press
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission that lasted ten years--although because of time dilation, 127 years hav ...Show more
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
"A fantastic book." --Steven Soderbergh When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews ...Show more
Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem; Joanna Zylinska (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Electronic Mediations Ser.
The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and ...Show more
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines." --The New York Times Book ReviewThese are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as "constructors," who have created marvels for kingdoms. Friends and rivals, they ar ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more