Solaris : The Chain of Chance : A Perfect Vacuum

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lem, Stanisław

Science Fiction

Penguin??Books

Six men crash-land on a planet in another solar system and, in an attempt to communicate with its inhabitants, they encounter violence and human cruelty

Eden

Harcourt

When a crew of earthmen--among them a space pilot, a military leader, a scientist, and a priest--reach the planet Quinta, the travelers descend into the very depths of the human condition

Fiasco (English and Polish Edition)

His Master's Voice

A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as the posthumous heirs of Them..."A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

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

Hospital of the Transfiguration (English and Polish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

This collection of futuristic prefaces to books of the twenty-first century ranges from the scientific to computer-generated literature

Imaginary Magnitude (English and Polish Edition)

Combining a bizarre sense of humor with more somber philosophical reflections, the author presents three provocative previews of life in the twenty-first century

One Human Minute (English and Polish Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

Are the self-programming robots on the moon ensuring "peace on Earth," or are they secretly plotting a terrestrial invasion of their own? This "futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (Boston Phoenix) presents a hilarious take on the conflict between the world's two hemispheres from "one of science fiction's true intellectuals" (Kirkus).

Peace on Earth

Harvest Books

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. “The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe” (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.

The Cyberiad

Contemporary

Mariner Books

Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides. Translated by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

United States

Harper/Voyager

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Solaris : The Chain of Chance : A Perfect Vacuum

Eden

Fiasco (English and Polish Edition)

His Master's Voice

Hospital of the Transfiguration (English and Polish Edition)

Imaginary Magnitude (English and Polish Edition)

One Human Minute (English and Polish Edition)

Peace on Earth

The Cyberiad

Peace on Earth