Stanislaw Lem

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The Star Diaries

Beschreibung

Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.

Autor

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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Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780241240021
• ISBN-10: 0241240026
• Artikelnr.: 43764833

Rezensionen

Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes--with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing Kirkus Reviews