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His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | 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
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
"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
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | 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
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxur ...Show more
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stor ...Show more
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