Stanislaw Lem

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The Cyberiad

Stanislaw Lem

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. 'The most completely suc...

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Published: Dec 2002

Eden (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)

Stanislaw Lem

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to vio...

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Published: Oct 1991

Fiasco

Stanislaw Lem

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking E...

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Published: Mar 1988

His Master's Voice (The MIT Press)

Stanislaw Lem

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 ...

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Published: Feb 2020

Imaginary Magnitude

Stanislaw 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 'biti...

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Published: Oct 1985

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Stanislaw Lem

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped i...

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Published: Jul 1986

Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further ...

Stanislaw Lem

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 Ti...

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Published: Feb 2020

Mortal Engines

Stanislaw Lem

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’ s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. “ Astonishing is not too strong a word for these talesR...

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Published: May 1992

One Human Minute

Stanislaw Lem

Contains three essays--'One Human Minute,' 'The Upside-Down Revolution ,' and 'The World as Cataclysm'--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

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Published: Nov 1986

Peace on Earth

Stanislaw Lem

Ijon Tichy is sent on a mission to report on the activities of certain self-programming robots on the moon. Sent there to ensure peace on earth, the robots are suspected of plotting an invasion of their own. While attending to a call ...

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Published: Dec 2002

Return from the Stars (The MIT Press)...

Stanislaw Lem

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 t...

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Published: Feb 2020

Tales of Pirx the Pilot

Stanislaw Lem

In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem o...

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Published: Nov 1990

The Hospital of the Transfiguration (...

Stanislaw Lem

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 sto...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Investigation

Stanislaw Lem

A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who s...

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Published: Jul 1986

The Invincible (The MIT Press)

Stanislaw Lem

A 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, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent ...

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Published: Feb 2020
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