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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 STAR DIARIES
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    THE STAR DIARIES
    STANISLAW LEM
    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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  • MORE TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT
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    MORE TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT
    STANISLAW LEM
    Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics. Translated by Louis Iribarne, assisted by Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book ...

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  • IMAGINARY MAGNITUDE
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    IMAGINARY MAGNITUDE
    STANISLAW LEM
    These 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 literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated ...

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  • 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...
    Agotado

    $395.00

  • EL HOSPITAL DE LA TRANSFIGURACIÓN.
    EL HOSPITAL DE LA TRANSFIGURACIÓN.
    STANISLAW LEM
    Lem, uno de los más indiscutibles maestros de la narrativa europea del XX, evoca en esta novela todo lo que hay de monstruoso en el espíritu humano. El hospital de la transfiguración es la primera novela de Stanislaw Lem, inédita hasta ahora en castellano, y una obra demoledora sobre la ocupación nazi de Polonia. Terminada en Cracovia en septiembre de 1948, y ambientada en los ...
    Agotado

    $520.00

  • ENTRE LOS MUERTOS.
    ENTRE LOS MUERTOS.
    STANISLAW LEM
    Entre los muertos es una de las obras más duras y personales del polaco Stanislaw Lem. Oculta durante seis décadas por deseo del autor y dotada de una fuerte carga autobiográfica, esta novela narra los años más oscuros de la ocupación nazi que Lem vivió en primera persona en su ciudad natal, Leópolis. La historia se presenta a través de dos personajes: Stefan Trzyniecki, alter ...
    Agotado

    $470.00

  • EL CASTILLO ALTO
    EL CASTILLO ALTO
    LEM, STANISLAW
    Agotado

    $389.00

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS
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    THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS
    STANISLAW LEM
    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. “Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.” —The Paris Review   Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Co...

    $189.00

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