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Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publi...
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fict...
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 plane...
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 ...
'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 ...
A Remembrance
A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanisław Lem. With Highcastle, Stanisław Lem offers a memoir of his ...
'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian 'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been se...
An early realist novel by Stanisław Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psy...
An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize–winning author. The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would e...
Fables for the Cybernetic Age
A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations 'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they wo...
From 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' (Guardian), the adventures of Pirx, a hapless everyman in outer space 'By now he fancied himself s...
Stories
“Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines.” —The New York Times Book Review These are...
'On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of his six hundred arms' Mortal Engines is a selec...
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...
From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
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'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these fou...
Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
Meet Ijon Tichy—a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and other puzzling phenomena—in this col...
Traducida a más de treinta lenguas, la obra de Stanislaw Lem contribuyó poderosamente a situar el género de la ciencia ficción en nuevas y origina...
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971...
An astronaut returns to Earth after a 10-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes in science fiction novel by the Solaris author, wh...
Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris. “Th...
A space cruiser encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines in this sci-fi classic with echoes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne! “A gian...
Nos hallamos en el siglo xxii y parece que por fin la humanidad va a hacer realidad un viejo sueño: entablar relación con seres inteligentes de otro...
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "p...
An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris. Vacation is supposed to be re...
Scientifiques arrivant dans un autre monde, propose une réflexion sur les limites de la connaissance et de la compréhension, sous la forme d'une dou...