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The first of Lem’s novels to be published in americanca and still the best known. A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of the pla...
"On a trail leading from Naples to Rome to Paris, the ex-astronaut barely escapes numerous threats on his life. Having set himself up as a potential v...
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. ...
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A spoof on the military-industrial complex featuring secret agent Ijon Tichy. On the moon, while relieving himself behind a boulder in the Sea of Sere...
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, th...
Donation....
Scific/detective novel. Lieutenant Gregory of Scotland Yark investigates the baffling and sinister disappearance of a number of corpses from the mortu...
Roman
A Remembrance
Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel. This is a memorable portrait ofthe artist as a bright, insatiably inquisitive, gluttonous young man....
Publisher description: Translated from the original Polish text, and with an introduction by Michael Kandel. These fourteen science fiction stories re...
Fables for the Cybernetic Age
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 proble...
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 d...
Roman aus der Polnischen von Hubert Schumann
Volume 40
An engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms....
Kriminalroman
Ksiazka fantastyczno-naukowa napisana w formie rzekomych zapisków Ijona Tichego, słynnego kapitana dalekiej zeglugi galaktycznej, badacza i łowcy p...
The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, pr...
A Perfect Vacuum is a spectacular literary experiment and a byword among serious readers. It is a metafictional collection of book reviews of nonexist...
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "p...
Essays