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Star Diaries : Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem (1985, Trade Paperback)

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Star Diaries, Paperback by Lem, Stanislaw, ISBN 0156849054, ISBN-13 9780156849050, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Ijon Tichy, an amiable cosmic traveler, tells of his adventures and misfortunes which cast a disparaging light on twentieth-century concepts, beliefs, and institutions

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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156849054

ISBN-139780156849050

eBay Product ID (ePID)81605

Product Key Features

Book TitleStar Diaries : Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Number of Pages286 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Satire, Literary, Science Fiction / General

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorStanislaw Lem

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN83-026385

ReviewsThe Polish sf writer's Star Diaries is a crazy-quilt collection of pieces written, according to Kandel, "over a period of twenty years" and published in 1971. They present the voyages of Ijon Tichy, an incomparable and apparently indestructible fathead who is to the future what J. Wesley Smith (of the immortal cartoon "Through History With...") was to the past. Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, sneaking around in cybernetic drag on a planet of mad robots, trying to duplicate himself (in a tail-chasing time loop near a "gravitational vortex") long enough to do a two-man rudder repair job, botching up the course of human events in a history-salvaging operation. 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.

Dewey Decimal891.8/537

SynopsisIjon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

LC Classification NumberPG7158.L39.D9213