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(0)Stanislaw Lem
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Brilliant stories of a bumbling astronaut, and the human desire to discover the unknown, by the much-loved author of Solaris. 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...
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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
3) The Cyberiad
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Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers.
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Una fantasía cósmica de altos vuelos, llena de un ácido sentido del humor. Una de las obras más míticas del polaco Stanislaw Lem, absolutamente entretenida y cautivadora.
Seres con circuitos, princesas autómatas, ladrones de guante eléctrico, sabios muy sabios, bestias de silicio y reyes del algoritmo. Artefactos mecánicos que se han expandido hasta colonizar el último rincón de la galaxia, y que a pesar de todas sus virtudes y bajezas,...
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An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize–winning author. A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.
7) Microworlds
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The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner. Translated by Rottensteiner and others. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis Iribarne, assisted by Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris. 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
11) Peace on Earth
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Robot armies, an arms race in space, and a brain at war with itself add up to "a futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (The Boston Phoenix). Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can't remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won't tell. Tichy struggles for control...
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Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure. Translated by Michael Kandel.
13) Eden
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A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel precisely because it is so human. Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. Fortunately, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community . . . From the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris, this is an entertaining and thought-provoking blend of politics, philosophy, humor, and science fiction. Translated...
15) Fiasco
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The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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magnitud imaginaria, piedra de toque de la famosa «Biblioteca del Siglo XXI» y heredera de la aclamada Vacío perfecto, es otro ejemplo delirante del genio de Stanisław Lem. Artistas que realizan pornografía mediante el uso de rayos X, científicos que cultivan bacterias que se comunican en código Morse y son capaces de predecir el futuro, vendedores de enciclopedias «de cuarenta y cuatro magnetomos» en las cuales está escrita la historia...
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Impedimenta
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2021
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¡El holocausto informativo ha caído sobre el planeta! Ijon Tichy se acurruca delante de una cueva de la que le ha expulsado un gorila, mientras graba sus memorias en tablillas de arcilla, como hacían los babilonios. Su colega, el profesor Affidavit Dońda, ha hecho un descubrimiento asombroso: ¡la información almacenada en las computadoras tiene un peso medible! Todos los ordenadores del mundo se han destruido a sí mismos y ello ha provocado...
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Twelve stories by science-fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English.
Of these 12 short stories by science-fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious...
19) Solaris
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Impedimenta
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2013
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Impedimenta se complace en presentar, por primera vez en traducción directa del polaco, "Solaris", la mítica novela que consagró a Stanislaw Lem como autor de culto. Un texto hoy en día considerado un clásico sin paliativos de la literatura moderna.
Kris Kelvin acaba de llegar a Solaris. Su misión es esclarecer los problemas de conducta de los tres tripulantes de la única estación de observación situada en el planeta. Solaris es un lugar...
Kris Kelvin acaba de llegar a Solaris. Su misión es esclarecer los problemas de conducta de los tres tripulantes de la única estación de observación situada en el planeta. Solaris es un lugar...