Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, Lem Stanislaw

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw
Название: Tales of Pirx the Pilot
ISBN: 0241400228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241400227
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Описание: From 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' (Guardian), the adventures of Pirx, a hapless everyman in outer space'By now he fancied himself something of a rocket jockey, a space ace, whose real home was among the planets'In a future where space travel has become routine and unremarkable, Pirx the pilot bumbles and daydreams his way through the solar system. These endearing tales follow his progress from cadet to captain. But, whether he is wrestling with a misbehaving spacesuit, feeling uncomfortable on a luxury space cruise ship or encountering a mysterious malfunctioning robot on a mission to Mars, the hapless Pirx just can't stop things from going terribly wrong.

Translated by Louis Iribarne

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw
Название: The Star Diaries
ISBN: 0241240026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241240021
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Описание: Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: Solaris
ISBN: 0571311571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571311576
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Описание: When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: The Invincible
ISBN: 0262538474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262538473
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: 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 communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines--perhaps the survivors of a "robot war." Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge? In The Invincible, Lem has his characters confront the inexplicable and the bizarre: the problem that lies just beyond analytical reach.

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw.
Название: The Futurological Congress (from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy) /
ISBN: 0156340402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780156340403
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize-winning author Stanislaw Lem.

"Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem."--Paris Review

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure--a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured.

Translated by Michael Kandel.

"A vision of Earth's future where the authorities dose the population with 'psychemicals' to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living."--Boston Globe

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw
Название: Fiasco
ISBN: 0241334357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241334355
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Описание: '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 spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'.

But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: The Seventh Voyage: Star Diaries
ISBN: 0545004624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780545004626
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Описание: "... J Muth's hilarious and gentle masterpiece." - Neil Gaiman

Ijon Tichy is caught in a TIME LOOP.

Alone in his broken spaceship-with no one there to help him-he could remain trappedin space indefinitely

But soon something strange begins to happen: Tichy's past and future selves appear. And rather than helping one another, they bicker and fight as they crowd into the tiny vessel.Will Tichy stop fighting with himself long enough to save his own life?

This sharply comical story by world-renowned science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lemhas been adapted into a brilliant graphic novel by Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award-winning artist Jon J Muth.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: The Hospital of the Transfiguration
ISBN: 0262538490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262538497
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: 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. At first the asylum seems like a bucolic refuge, but a series of sinister encounters and incidents reveal an underlying brutality. The doctor begins to seek relief in the strange conversation of the poet Sekulowski, who is posing as a patient in a bid for safety from the occupying German forces. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters stockpile weapons in the surrounding woods.

A very early work by Lem, The Hospital of the Transfiguration is partly autobiographical, drawing on the author's experiences as a medical student. Written in 1948, it was suppressed by Polish censors and not published until 1955. The censorship of this realist novel is partly what led Lem to focus on science fiction and nonfiction for the rest of his career.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: Return from the Stars
ISBN: 0262538482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262538480
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Описание: 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 have passed on Earth. Bregg finds a society that he hardly recognizes, in which danger has been eradicated. Children are "betrizated" to remove all aggression and violence--a process that also removes all impulse to take risks and explore. The people of Earth view Bregg and his crew as "resuscitated Neanderthals," and pressure them to undergo betrization. Bregg has serious difficulty in navigating the new social mores.

While Lem's depiction of a risk-free society is bleak, he does not portray Bregg and his fellow astronauts as heroes. Indeed, faced with no opposition to his aggression, Bregg behaves abominably. He is faced with a choice: leave Earth again and hope to return to a different society in several hundred years, or stay on Earth and learn to be content. With Return from the Stars, Lem shows the shifting boundaries between utopia and dystopia.

Автор: Swirski, Peter (university Of Missouri-st Louis)
Название: Stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future
ISBN: 1789620546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789620542
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Описание: Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem`s life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: Highcastle: A Remembrance
ISBN: 0262538466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262538466
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Описание: A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: His Master`s Voice
ISBN: 0262538458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262538459
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Описание: Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.