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The star diaries

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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

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Penguin Classics
0241240026 / 9780241240021
Paperback / softback
31/12/2015
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
272 pages
20 cm
Translated from the Polish.