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In ferner Zukunft landet das mächtige Raumschiff »Der Unbesiegbare« auf dem Planeten Regis III, um das Schicksal seines dort verschollenen Schwesterschiffes »Kondor« zu ergründen. Doch obwohl diese Welt unbewohnt ist, lauern hier Gefahren, die sich die selbstgewisse menschliche Besatzung zunächst nicht träumen lässt. Lem spinnt ein spannendes Weltraumgarn, wäre aber nicht Lem, wenn er sich nicht noch quasi nebenbei die Nanotechnologie, die Tec...

Stanislaw Lem gilt vielen als der Science-Fiction-Autor schlechthin. Und doch ist hier noch ein ganzer literarischer Kosmos zu entdecken: Lem der Philosoph, der streitlustige Kritiker, Erfinder neuer Genres, Sprachkünstler und Romancier von Weltrang. Best of Lem versammelt Erzählungen und Kostproben sowohl der berühmten, vielfach verfilmten und millionenfach gelesenen und geliebten Bücher als auch unbekanntere, aber ebenso aufregende Glanzlich...

Stanislaw Lem lässt seinen vielleicht sympathischsten Helden, den schlitzohrigen Raumfahrer Ijon Tichy, im Laufe seines Lebens unzählige Reisen zu anderen Welten erleben, von denen die besten in diesem Band versammelt sind. Tichy begegnet dabei gottesfürchtigen Robotern, trifft sich selbst in der Vergangenheit oder muss auch einfach mal eine intelligente, aber widerspenstige Waschmaschine dazu überreden, weiter ihren Dienst zu tun. Leserinnen ...

Hier bleibt Ijon Tichy, der Held so vieler lemscher Erzählungen, ausnahmsweise auf dem Boden, das heißt auf der Erde. Es bedeutet allerdings nicht, dass es ihm hier langweilig würde, ganz im Gegenteil: Er wird beschossen, eingefroren, aufgetaut, betäubt, benebelt, beglückt und bekommt schließlich noch einen Rattenschwanz verpasst. Der futurologische Kongreß ist eine der großen Dystopien des 20. Jahrhunderts - allerdings deutlich lustiger als d...

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 offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the exploits of the Trurl and Klapaucius, two ingenious 'constructors'. In their adventures through a strange medieval universe they encounter a machine capable of creating anything that starts with the letter 'N', kings who oppress their people with parlour games, and PhD p...

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.

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 story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. At first the asylum seems like a bucolic refuge, but a series of sinister encounters and incidents reveal an underlying brutality. The doctor begi...

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 that lasted ten years—although because of time dilation, 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg finds a society that he hardly recognizes, in which danger has been eradicated. Children are "betrizated” to remove all a...

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.

A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master 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 message, knowing nothing about the senders—even whether or not they exist? Written as the memoir of a mathematician who participates in the government project (code name: His Master's Voice) attempting to decode wha...

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, Mo...

World renowned sci-fi writer and Caldecott Honor artist team up for a zany sci-fi tall tale about an astronaut caught in a time loop in space who must confront past and future versions of himself!

Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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 in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.

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Stati Uniti, 2027. GOLEM XIV, ultimo prototipo di elaboratore superintelligente della serie Golem sviluppata per fini bellici, inizia a disinteressarsi alle questioni di strategia militare. Il Governo federale, su pressione della comunità scientifica contraria al suo smantellamento, ne decide la conservazione presso il MIT. È lì che, di fronte a un pubblico di scienziati, si svolgono alcune conferenze su temi prescelti dal Golem. Una piccola p...