Solaris — Stanislaw Lem

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Jul-1985
  • Harvest
  • ISBN: 0156849054
  • ISBN13: 9780156849050

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  • Trade Paperback
  • May-1987
  • Mariner
  • ISBN: 0156837501
  • ISBN13: 9780156837507

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Nov-2002
  • Mariner
  • ISBN: 0156027607
  • ISBN13: 9780156027601

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  • Paperback
  • Jul-2005
  • Faber and Faber (UK)
  • ISBN: 0571219721
  • ISBN13: 9780571219728

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  • Paperback
  • Mar-2016
  • Faber and Faber (UK)
  • ISBN: 0571311571
  • ISBN13: 9780571311576

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Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • Jun-1970
  • Walker & Company
  • ISBN: 0802755267
  • ISBN13: 9780802755261

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  • Hardcover
  • Dec-1993
  • Lightyear Press
  • ISBN: 0899683517
  • ISBN13: 9780899683515

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Dec-2011
  • Premier Digital Publishing

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Audio editions:

  • Audible
  • 2008
  • BBC Worldwide Limited

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  • Audio CD (abridged)
  • Jan-2010
  • AudioGO
  • ISBN: 1602838194
  • ISBN13: 9781602838192

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  • MP3 CD
  • Oct-2010
  • Tantor Media
  • ISBN: 1400169933
  • ISBN13: 9781400169931

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  • Audio CD
  • Oct-2010
  • Tantor Media
  • ISBN: 1400149932
  • ISBN13: 9781400149933

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  • Audio CD
  • Oct-2010
  • Tantor Media
  • ISBN: 1400119936
  • ISBN13: 9781400119936

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  • MP3 CD
  • Aug-2016
  • Brilliance Audio
  • ISBN: 1522697462
  • ISBN13: 9781522697466

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Description
Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space, satirizing science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.

A space explorer travels undercover to a robot world, joining an organization to clean up world history through time travel. The universe may never be the same . . .

“Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, sneaking around in cybernetic drag on a planet of mad robots, trying to duplicate himself (in a tail-chasing time loop near a ‘gravitational vortex') long enough to do a two-man rudder repair job, botching up the course of human events in a history-salvaging operation. Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes -- with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing.” -- Kirkus Reviews

“Part satire, part imaginative play, and part thought experiment, The Star Diaries is a collection of stories -- voyages to be precise -- telling of the space man Ijon Tichy's adventures and encounters across the universe and through time. Tongue in cheek throughout, it's only a question of how much the cheek bulges in each . . . hilarious, witty, and philosophical all at once.” -- Speculiction

“Lem's Star Diaries have a special place among his story-cycles, since they span most of his career and reflect his changing concerns. Still, they have a common theme: the presumptuousness of the intellect.” -- Science Fiction Studies

“Tichy's twelve voyages are told as a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence, and human nature.” -- Inclover Magazine
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