Resultados para: stanislaw lem

Quando o psicólogo Kris Kelvin chega em Solaris para estudar o oceano vivo – e possivelmente inteligente – que cobre a superfície do planeta, ele encontra colegas de trabalho hostis e amedrontados. Logo Kelvin descobre que esses respeitados...

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...

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet'apos;s written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a...

Ijon Tichy, Lem'apos;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...

Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so...

It is 1939; the Nazis have occupied Poland. A young doctor disturbed by the fate of Poland joins the staff of an insane asylum only to find a world of pain and absurdity to match that outside. Translated by William Brand. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

In this sequel to The Star Diaries, Ijon Tichy, space traveler of future centuries, discovers that 'quot;out there'quot; isn'apos;t very different from 'quot;down here.'quot; Throughout these nine wild adventures, surprise follows witty surprise....

Cyberiad

Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others...

Peace on Earth

Upon landing at an interplanetary station, Kris Kelvin discovers that an advanced power has taken over.

Lem's hilarious send-up of militarism, espionage, scientists, and psychiatrists goes to unprecedented extremes as Ijon Tichy, unflappable as always, fights for truth and justice in a world gone mad. While relieving himself behind a boulder in the Sea...

It is 1939; the Nazis have occupied Poland. A young doctor disturbed by the fate of Poland joins the staff of an insane asylum only to find a world of pain and absurdity to match that outside. Translated by William Brand. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Diarios de Las Estrellas

Diarios de las estrellas narra las sorprendentes peripecias del viajero estelar Ijon Tichy (también protagonista de ?Congreso de futurología?) por otros mundos y civilizaciones. Con un enorme sentido del humor y un sutil dominio de la sátira,...

Stanislaw Lem's Highcastle is at once a remembrance and a meditation. Even as Lem gives an account of his childhood in Lvov in the years between the two world wars, he ponders the nature of memory, innocence, and the imagination. His recollections of...