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The Star Diaries

The Star Diaries

Paperback Published on: 31/12/2015; Language: English, Polish (Original language of a translated text)
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Synopsis

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York Times

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

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241240021
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 20 mm
  • Weight: 258g
  • Languages: English, Polish (Original language of a translated text)