In these fantastical short stories, Stanislaw Lem rewrites the laws of reality, space and language itself to take us on an anarchic and darkly comic journey through a newly imagined universe.
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 Solaris, Tales of Pirx the Pilot, the Summa Technologiae and The Futurological Congress.
Stanislaw Lem may be the most famous science fiction writer you've
never heard of ... [this] collection of stories may go some way to
redressing that ... The linguistic inventiveness is extraordinary
... Lem has created a curious world in which robots and rockets rub
shoulders with kings, dragons, witches and pirates
*Independent on Sunday*
A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age
*New York Times*
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