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The Star Diaries

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Star Diaries
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stanislaw Lem
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780241240021
ClassificationsDewey:891.85372
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 31 December 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A satirical and philosophical set of space adventure stories from one of the best-loved science-fiction writers of the twentieth century Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

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 * A giant of 20th-century science fiction * The Guardian * Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland's premier intellectual of the imagination -- John Clute * The Independent *