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Mortal Engines

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mortal Engines
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stanislaw Lem
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780241269077
ClassificationsDewey:891.85373
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 6 October 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times 'On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of his six hundred arms' Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic translator Michael Kandel, who has somehow battled through Lem's jokes, parodies, fabricated technological terms and unreliable robots and brilliantly converted them from Polish into English. Encompassing his Fables for Robots and stories from his protagonists Ijon Tichy (from The Star Diaries) and Pirx the Pilot, this is a highly entertaining but also deeply alarming view of the glories and absurdities of Outer Space.

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

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 *