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Paperback Books by Stanislaw Lem
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| The Cyberiad |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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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. 'The most completely successful... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2002 |
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| Peace on Earth |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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| Ijon Tichy is sent on a mission to report on the activities of certain self-programming robots on the moon. Sent there to ensure peace on earth, the robots are suspected of plotting an invasion of their own. While attending to a call of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2002 |
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| Mortal Engines |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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| These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’ s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. “ Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales”... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 1992 |
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| Eden (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book) |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1991 |
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| Tales of Pirx the Pilot |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1990 |
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| Publication Date: June 1989 |
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| Fiasco |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 1988 |
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| One Human Minute |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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Contains three essays--'One Human Minute,' 'The Upside-Down Revolution ,' and 'The World as Cataclysm'--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
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| Publication Date: November 1986 |
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| The Investigation |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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| Lieutenant Gregory, an officer at Scotland Yard, is assigned to investigate missing bodies. Apparently, they have been somehow resurrected, and Gregory consults scientists, philosophers and theologians in his search for clues. |
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| Publication Date: July 1986 |
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| Memoirs Found in a Bathtub |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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| 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 1986 |
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| Imaginary Magnitude |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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| These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create 'pornograms,' and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of 'bitistics.'... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1985 |
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| Publication Date: June 1985 |
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| Publication Date: September 1983 |
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| A Perfect Vacuum |
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| by Stanislaw Lem |
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| A famous science-fiction writer emerges as a satirist as he reviews such nonexistent works as U-Write-It, a publication described as a literary erector set, and The Sexplosion, a novel concerned with the extinction of the sex drive |
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| Publication Date: April 1983 |
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