The Star Diaries

Stanislaw Lem author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:31st Dec '15

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Playful, absurd, irreverent and philosophical, The Star Diaries hold a satirical mirror up to humanity to examine freedom, technology and existence itself.

Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York Times

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers

Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes--with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing * Kirkus Reviews *
A giant of 20th-century science fiction * The Guardian *
Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland's premier intellectual of the imagination -- John Clute * The Independent *

ISBN: 9780241240021

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 24mm

Weight: 260g

352 pages