The author describes his innocent childhood as the son of a doctor in Lvov between the two world wars, during which his most vivid memories include episodes with his gossipy French tutor, the view from a confectionary store, and halvah stands.

Highcastle: A Remembrance

Michael Kandel

Stanislaw, Lem

Harcourt

Black Thorn, White Rose: A Modern Book of Adult Fairy Tales

Literature & Fiction

Daniel Quinn

Patricia C. Wrede

Lawrence Schimel

Midori Snyder

Nancy Kress

Tim Wynne-Jones

Storm Constantine

Susan Wade

Michael Cadnum

Ann Downer-Hazell

M.E. Beckett

Isabel Cole

Genre Fiction

Penguin

STRANGE INVASION

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Spectra

Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been received and the scientists, under the surveillance of the Pentagon, labor on His Master's Voice, the secret program set up to decipher the transmission. Among them is Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician. When the project reaches a stalemate, Hogarth pursues clandestine research into the classified TX Effect--another secret breakthrough. But when he discovers, to his horror, that the TX Effect could lead to the construction of a fission bomb, Hogarth decides such knowledge must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the military.

His Master's Voice

United States

Northwestern University Press

In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature--works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's "games for games' sake" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results, lampooning the movement's self-indulgence and exploiting its mannerisms. Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackles (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers. The result is a metafictional tour de force by one of the world's most popular writers.

A Perfect Vacuum

Contemporary

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