MORE TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT
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MORE TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT (ebook)

STANISLAW LEM

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HARPER VOYAGER (ORM)
ISBN:
9780544057005
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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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