The Star Diaries

Author(s): Lem, Stanislaw
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 31/12/2015,
Pagination: 352 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241240021,
Description:

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers