A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw 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 spaceand 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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241240021Number of pages: 352Weight: 259 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 21 mm
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Lem veers between joyous slapstick,freewheeling satire,and insanely involuted logical paradoxes-with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny,unexpected,tantalizingA giant of 20th-century science fictionStanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland's premier intellectual of the imagination
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