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Stanislaw Lem Star Diaries (Paperback) Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Star Diaries : Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
- Publication Name
- Star Diaries
- Title
- Star Diaries
- Subtitle
- Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0156849054
- EAN
- 9780156849050
- ISBN
- 9780156849050
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Literary, Science Fiction / General
- Release Year
- 1985
- Release Date
- 26/06/1985
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 9.1 Oz
- Series
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Publication Year
- 1985
- Number of Pages
- 286 Pages
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Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156849054
ISBN-13
9780156849050
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81605
Product Key Features
Book Title
Star Diaries : Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Literary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
1985
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
286 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg7158.L39.D9213
Reviews
The Polish sf writer's Star Diaries is a crazy-quilt collection of pieces written, according to Kandel, "over a period of twenty years" and published in 1971. They present the voyages of Ijon Tichy, an incomparable and apparently indestructible fathead who is to the future what J. Wesley Smith (of the immortal cartoon "Through History With...") was to the past. Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, sneaking around in cybernetic drag on a planet of mad robots, trying to duplicate himself (in a tail-chasing time loop near a "gravitational vortex") long enough to do a two-man rudder repair job, botching up the course of human events in a history-salvaging operation. 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.
Copyright Date
1985
Lccn
83-026385
Dewey Decimal
891.8/537
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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