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Highcastle - A Remembrance by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem. With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful--"I was a monster," he observes ruefully--this lively and charming book describes a ...Show more
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem; Michael Kandel
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders--even whether or not they e ...Show more
Hospital of the Transfiguration by Stanislaw Lem; William R. Brand
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The Hospital of the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a Polish asylum during World War II. A ...Show more
Memoirs of a Space Traveler by Stanislaw Lem; Joel Stern; Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek; Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena. Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange ex ...Show more
Return from the Stars by Stanislaw Lem; Barbara Marsza; Frank Simpson
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission that lasted ten years--although because of time dilation, 127 years hav ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction | 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 Invincible by Stanislaw Lem; Bill Johnston
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: The MIT Press
A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose ...Show more
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