Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Author

Stanisław Lem

Original Work

The Star Diaries

Translators

Joel Stern·Maria Swiecicka-Ziemainek·Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Foreword / Afterword

Elizabeth Bear

Language

English

Year

2020

Publisher

MIT Press

Country

United States

Pages

200

ISBN

9780262538503

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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.— Google Books