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Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth ...Show more
Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artifici ...Show more
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
"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 in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews ...Show more
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem; Bill Johnston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The MIT Press
A 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 the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose ...Show more
The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of short stories centers around one character, space traveller Ijon Tichy. In these stories, Stanislaw 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.
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern
What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
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