Description
Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange experiments involving, among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy encounters make plans that are grandiose, and strike bargains that are Faustian. They pursue humanity's greatest and most ancient obsessions: immortality, artificial intelligence, and top-of-the-line consumer items.
By turns satirical, philosophical, and absurd, these stories express the most starkly original and prescient notions of a master of speculative fiction.
Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780262538503
ISBN10: 0262538504
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Space Exploration
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Time Travel
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
About the Author
Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris.