The Star Diaries
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241240021
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.00

The Star Diaries

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A satirical and philosophical set of space adventure stories from one of the best-loved science-fiction writers of the twentieth century

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241240021
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Lem was a Polish author best known for his 1961 science fiction novel Solaris. He also wrote several other SF works including Eden (1959) and His Master's Voice (1968). Lem's books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold over 45 million copies. He was awarded numerous honours for his writing, including the City of Kraków's Prize in Literature, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Lem died in 2006, aged 84.

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The Three Electroknights
The Truth and Other Stories
Dialogues
His Master's Voice
Highcastle
Hospital of the Transfiguration
The Invincible
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Praise for The Star Diaries

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

A giant of 20th-century science fiction

The Guardian

Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland's premier intellectual of the imagination

John Clute, The Independent