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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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