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Solaris — Stanislaw Lem
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Published:
Jun-1970 (Hardcover) -
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Science Fiction -
Pages:
286 -
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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
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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