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The Truth and Other Stories
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- Condition
- Artist
- Lem, Stanislaw
- ISBN
- 0262545063
- Book Title
- Truth and Other Stories
- Item Length
- 9in
- Original Language
- Polish
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Humorous
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 340 Pages
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Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262545063
ISBN-13
9780262545068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057236919
Product Key Features
Book Title
Truth and Other Stories
Original Language
Polish
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Humorous
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
340 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg7158.L39
Table of Content
Foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson vii The Hunt (Late 1950s) 1 Rat in the Labyrinth (1956) 23 Invasion from Aldebaran (1959) 61 The Friend (1959) 73 The Invasion (1959) 123 Darkness and Mildew (1959) 161 The Hammer (1959) 183 Lymphater's Formula (1961) 221 The Journal (1962) 249 The Truth (1964) 271 One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Seconds (1976) 295 An Enigma (1993) 323
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Lccn
2020-047150
Dewey Decimal
891.537
Dewey Edition
23
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