Truth And Other Stories, Lem, Stanislaw

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw
Название: Tales of Pirx the Pilot
ISBN: 0241400228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241400227
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: Solaris
ISBN: 0571311571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571311576
Издательство: Faber
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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 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: 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: 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: Mortal Engines
ISBN: 0241269075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241269077
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Описание: 'A virtuoso storyteller ... a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times'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 artificial mind, but his dreams rebel.

These stories range from surreal fables that satirically turn the fairy tale on its head, to longer works including the man vs. robot thriller, 'The Hunt', and possibly fiction's strangest love story, 'The Mask'. InMortal Engines Stanislaw Lem lays bare humanity's clash with machines, masterfully exploring science fiction's furthest frontiers.

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw.
Название: The Futurological Congress (from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy) /
ISBN: 0156340402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780156340403
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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: Cyberiad
ISBN: 0241467993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241467992
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Описание: Fables for the Cybernetic Age. Trurl and Klapaucius are `constructors` - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations. `The Cyberiad` is oddly reminiscent of `Gulliver`s Travels`, `The Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy`, `The Phantom Tollbooth` and `Alice in Wonderland`. Charming, mind-bending and anarchic, it is perhaps Lem`s greatest work.

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw
Название: Dialogues
ISBN: 0262542935 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262542937
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: Social media is changing the business of representation in the Senate. If you want to know what your senator is up to, you don`t need a newspaper, just your phone. Drawing on a unique dataset of almost 200,000 senator tweets, Tweeting is Leading offers a critical analysis of senators` communication on Twitter, the individual and constituent forces that shape it, and the agendas that result.

Автор: Lem Stanislaw
Название: Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
ISBN: 0262538504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262538503
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: 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 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.

Автор: Lem, Stanislaw
Название: The Three Electroknights
ISBN: 0241339391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241339398
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Описание: One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry - all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

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.