Publisher:
Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation
Published:
1977
Alibris ID:
10951996709
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Seller's Description:
Lem. Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Inside Covers, First and Last Few Pages, Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 35691. ALSO KNOWN AS: Original edition: Dzienniki Gwiazdowe (Polish). TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH BY: Michael Kandel. CONTENTS: The Seventh Voyage; The Eighth Voyage; The Eleventh Voyage; The Twelfth Voyage; The Thirteenth Voyage; The Fourteenth Voyage; The Twentieth Voyage; The Twenty-first Voyage; The Twenty-second Voyage; The Twenty-third Voyage; The Twenty-fifth Voyage; The Twenty-eighth Voyage. SYNOPSIS: With over six million of his books in print worldwide, Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most popular--and most critically acclaimed--science fiction writer of our day. In The Star Diaries he recounts the further adventures of the delightfully wacky spaceman Ijon Tichy who whizzes through time and deep space in his interstellar Model T--running out of gas between planets, encountering space gypsies who clean moons for a living...robot theologians who live in caves...and renegade potatoes who destroy spaceships. And somewhere out there in the universe he meets his "tomorrow self, " quarrels with Plato, and reflects on the natural decency of electronic brains. The Star Diaries is a magnificently surrealistic Gulliver's Travels in outer space that makes pleasant mockery of our Twentieth Century beliefs and institutions.
