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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

There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has g...

From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.

»Als der Kosmos noch nicht so durcheinander war wie heute und alle Sterne säuberlich in Reih und Glied standen, so daß man sie von links nach rechts oder von oben nach unten abzählen konnte ... - in jener guten alten Zeit war es üblich, daß Konstrukteure, die das ¿Diplom der Perpetualen Omnipotenz mit Auszeichnung¿ besaßen, ab und zu Reisen unternahmen um fernen Völkern guten Rat und Hilfe zu gewähren.« Lems Kyberiade ist ein Zyklus von Reisen...

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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...

Stanislaw Lem died on 26 March, 2006. No one can literally bring back his mortal engine to life. But his voice can be heard afresh for the benefit of all those who believe that, with his passing, a quintessential element of twentieth-century artistic and intellectual heritage has come to an end. Peter Swirski's edited and annotated translation of Lem's fifteen-year correspondence with his principal American translator offers an unparalleled te...

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Solaris" è il capolavoro della fantascienza filosofica. Siamo nel lembo più estremo dell'universo esplorato dal genere umano. Un astronauta, dalla Terra, approda nella stazione spaziale che gira intorno al pianeta Solaris. Qui trova un'atmosfera di mistero e sospetto: nessuno lo accoglie, i pochi ospiti della astronave sembrano angosciati e sopraffatti, c'è un morto recente a cui si allude con circospezione ma senza sorpresa, gli oggetti subis...

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...

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories, but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery.Solaris raises a question that has...

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A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Der Erzähler heißt Ijon Tichy: der Held der Sterntagebücher setzt hier seine außerirdischen Erkundungen fort. Zunächst betreibt er in der Schweiz Studien im Institut für Geschichtsmaschinen, einer Filiale des Ministeriums für Außerirdische Angelegenheiten. Dort wird mit allen verfügbaren Daten die Geschichte ferner Planeten simuliert. Ausgangspunkt ist Tichys Darstellung des Planeten Entia in der 14. Reise: anscheinend hat Tichy einen Vergnügu...

Unsere metallenen und kristallischen Brüder haben das Joch des Menschen abgeschüttelt und sind in den Kosmos entfleucht. Dort verbreiten sie ihre raffiniert ausgesponnenen Lügenmärchen vom Wunderbaren und Kuriosen, das sich in den Zwischensternländern findet. Mit Wortwitz und sprachlicher Virtuosität erzählen sie darin auch von ihren alten Unterdrückern, den Klebäuglern und Teignasen, und von ihren Kämpfen mit dem entsetzlichen Bleichling, ein...

Nach einer zehnjährigen Weltraumexpedition kehrt Hal Bregg auf die Erde zurück. Zehn Bordjahre aber bedeuten 123 Erdenjahre. Die Gesellschaft, der er sich nun anpassen muss, hat sich bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verändert. Aber nicht nur der technische Fortschritt hat eine völlig neue, verwirrende Welt geschaffen. Mittels einer Droge wurde eine der folgenreichsten menschlichen Eigenschaften in den Griff bekommen: die Aggressivität. Hal Bregg wehrt ...