Mortal Engines

(Author) Stanislaw Lem
Format: Paperback
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'On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of his six hundred arms' Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic translator Michael Kandel, who has somehow battled through Lem's jokes, parodies, fabricated technological terms and unreliable robots and brilliantly converted them from Polish into English. Encompassing his Fables for Robots and stories from his protagonists Ijon Tichy (from The Star Diaries) and Pirx the Pilot, this is a highly entertaining but also deeply alarming view of the glories and absurdities of Outer Space.

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Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Paperback
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780241269077
Publish year:
2016
Publish date:
Oct. 6, 2016

Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem was a Polish science fiction writer best known for his novel "Solaris," a philosophical exploration of human consciousness and alien intelligence. His writing style was characterized by deep intellectual inquiry and clever satire. Lem's key contributions to literature include pushing the boundaries of the sci-fi genre with his thought-provoking and visionary works.

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