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Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'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 ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth ...Show more
His Master's Voice by Michael (TRN) Stanislaw; Kandel Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artifici ...Show more
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
"A fantastic book." --Steven Soderbergh When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews ...Show more
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
A psychologist arrives at a research space station called Prometheus, his mission to ascertain whether research into the mysterious planet of Solaris should be terminated. He finds Prometheus all but deserted, its straggling crew seemingly haunted by hallucinations of figures from their pasts.
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines." --The New York Times Book ReviewThese are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as "constructors," who have created marvels for kingdoms. Friends and rivals, they ar ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
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 four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve 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 stor ...Show more
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