Stanislaw Lem
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Peace on Earth
$14.95 Add to cartIjon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left b
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 04 2002
- ISBN10: 015602814X
- Language: English
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The Investigation
$17.95 Add to cartA young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophic… [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 1986
- ISBN10: 0156451581
- Language: English
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One Human Minute
$11.95 Add to cartContains three essays–“One Human Minute,” “The Upside-Down Revolution,” and “The World as Cataclysm”–from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 015668795X
- Language: English
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Eden
$15.95 Add to cartA six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger: a desert plain exuding acrid vapors, a greenish tinge at the horizon, a gray … [more below]
- Series: Helen & Kurt Wolff Book
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 19 1991
- ISBN10: 0156278065
- Language: English
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Fiasco
$17.00 Add to cartThe planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Herme… [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0156306301
- Language: English
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
$15.00 Add to cartThe year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet’s written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record t… [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 19 1986
- ISBN10: 0156585855
- Language: English
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A Perfect Vacuum
$18.95 Add to cartThis is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. “Lem is Harpo Marx … [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 19 1983
- ISBN10: 0156716860
- Language: English
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Mortal Engines
$15.95 Add to cartThese fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. “Astonishing is not too strong a word
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0156621614
- Language: English
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Imaginary Magnitude
$16.95 Add to cartThese wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create “pornograms,” and analyzing computer-generated liter… [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 28 1985
- ISBN10: 0156441802
- Language: English
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Return from the Stars
$24.95 Add to cartAn 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 retur
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538482
- Language: English
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Tales of Pirx the Pilot
$13.95 Add to cartIn Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx wi
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0156881500
- Language: English
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Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
$21.95 Add to cartIjon 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 drawi… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0156849054
- Language: English
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His Master’s Voice
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the critically acclaimed author of Solaris comes a classic sci-fi tale about scientists who must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space–for fans of Arrival
By pure chance, scie- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538458
- Language: English
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The Truth and Other Stories
$26.95 Add to cartTwelve stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English.
Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previousl- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0262545063
- Language: English
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The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
$18.99 Add to cartThe 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 … [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 1985
- ISBN10: 0156340402
- Language: English
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The Invincible
$18.95 Add to cartA 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 th
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: 18-Feb-20
- ISBN10: 0262538474
- Language: English
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Solaris
$18.99 Add to cart“A fantastic book.” –Steven Soderbergh
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20, 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027607
- Language: English
