The Cyberiad

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Stanislaw, Lem

Science Fiction

Avon/Books

Solaris

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Arrow Books

1st edition 1st printing paperback, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Antigrav

LARRY NIVEN

JAMES BLISH

HARRY HARRISON

Barry N. Malzberg

Theodore Sturgeon

John Sladek

JOHN BROSNAN

Uta Frith

Pete Adams

L. Jerome Stanton

Carol Carr

Robert Borski

Charles Nightingale

1st edition Penguin 1976 vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Invincible

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Tales of Pirx the Pilot (King Penguin)

The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Penguin Modern Classics)

Cyberiad

Penguin Classics

A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Chain of Chance

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

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

Harcourt

The strange adventures of the space explorer, Ijon Tichy, satirize society, technology, and science fiction

Memoirs of a Space Traveler (English and Polish Edition)

In ten essays, a master of science fiction and fantasy discusses the current state of the genre in analyses of the scientific and literary bases of his own and others' work

Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy

Franz Rottensteiner

History & Criticism

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