A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw 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
ISBN: | 9780241240021 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
Published date: | 31 Dec 2015 |
DEWEY: | 891.85372 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xii, 337 |
Weight: | 260g |
Height: | 199mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |