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...

Peace on Earth

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

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...

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...