EAN: 9780262538503

MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER - STANISLAW LEM KAR...

Meet Ijon Tichy a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time machines  intelligent washing
machines  and other puzzling phenomena in this collection from a science fiction legend.
Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy  a Gulliver of the space age 
who leads readers through strange experiments involving  among other puzzling phenomena  faulty
time machines  intelligent washing machines  and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy
encounters make plans that are grandiose  and strike bargains that are Faustian. They pursue
humanity s greatest and most ancient obsessions: immortality  artificial intelligence  and
top-of-the-line consumer items. By turns satirical  philosophical  and absurd  these stories
express the most starkly original and prescient notions of a master of speculative fiction.

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