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  • PEACE ON EARTH
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    PEACE ON EARTH
    STANISLAW LEM
    Robot armies, an arms race in space, and a brain at war with itself add up to “a futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (The Boston Phoenix).  Anxious to avoid a war that would destroy the entire planet, the major powers of Earth have come to an ingenious compromise. Each country sends a force of adaptable, self-programming robots to the surface of the moon to play out ...

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  • ONE HUMAN MINUTE
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    ONE HUMAN MINUTE
    STANISLAW LEM
    Essays by the author of Solaris: “Lem’s delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity’s possible fate” (Publishers Weekly). In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications it could have for the future—in satirical, wise, and biting prose.   With this collection of thre...

    $149.00

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  • THE INVESTIGATION
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    THE INVESTIGATION
    STANISLAW LEM
    An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize–winning author. The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies are disappearing. The initial assumption is that a grave robber is roaming London and defiling local morgues. But upon further examination, it seems the dece...

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  • MICROWORLDS
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    MICROWORLDS
    STANISLAW LEM
    The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for which he is most known. In this collection of ten essays—ranging from an introspective examination of his own biographical and litera...

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  • FIASCO
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    FIASCO
    STANISLAW LEM
    “A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel” from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris (The New York Times). The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth’s excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use the expansive space technology developed by humanity to seek new worlds, friendships, and allian...

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  • TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT
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    TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT
    STANISLAW LEM
    Brilliant stories of a bumbling astronaut, and the human desire to discover the unknown, by the much-loved author of Solaris. Set in the not-too-distant future, when space flight has evolved to the point where humanity is ready to colonize the solar system, Tales of Pirx the Pilot follows one somewhat-hapless explorer as he struggles though his training as a cadet, his career a...

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  • A PERFECT VACUUM
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    A PERFECT VACUUM
    STANISLAW LEM
    Ingenious essays from “a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory” (The New York Times Book Review). In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outside of his fictional comfort zone to try his hand at reviewing the literature of others. The only catch is this: None of these books have actually been pub...

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  • THE CHAIN OF CHANCE
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    THE CHAIN OF CHANCE
    STANISLAW LEM
    An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris. Vacation is supposed to be relaxing. But while traveling in Naples, several American tourists die in a most macabre and unusual way: committing suicide in a fit of madness. The cases are too similar to be coincidental, and the prevailing theory soon assumes tha...

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  • EDEN
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    EDEN
    STANISLAW LEM
    From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” (Kirkus Reviews). Six explorers—the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist—crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees,...

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  • EL CASTILLO ALTO
    EL CASTILLO ALTO
    LEM, STANISLAW
    Agotado

    $389.00

  • RETORNO DE LAS ESTRELLAS
    RETORNO DE LAS ESTRELLAS
    STANISLAW LEM
    Cuando Hall Bregg -protagonista de ?Retorno de las estrellas?- regresa a la Tierra tras una arriesgada expedición de diez años en una galaxia lejana, se encuentra con un planeta en el que, en virtud de la contracción del tiempo einsteiniana, han pasado ciento veintisiete años, a lo largo de los cuales se han producido variaciones sustanciales en la especie humana, en la socieda...
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    $389.00