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Mortal engines / Stanislaw Lem ; translated from the Polish and with an introduction by Michael Kandel.
By: Lem, Stanisław
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BookSeries: Continuum book (Seabury Press).Publisher: New York : Seabury Press, 1977Description: xxiv, 239 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0816492964 .Subject(s): Science fiction, Polish -- Translations into EnglishDDC classification: 891.8537
Contents:
The three electroknights -- Uranium earpieces -- How Erg the self-inducting slew a paleface -- Two monsters -- The white death -- How microx and Gigant made the universe expand -- Tale of the computer that fought a dragon -- The advisers of King Hydrops -- Automatthew's friend -- King Globares and the sages -- The tale of King Gnuff -- The sanatorium of Dr. Vliperdius -- The hunt -- The mask.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 891.8537 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00027133 |
Total holds: 0
The three electroknights -- Uranium earpieces -- How Erg the self-inducting slew a paleface -- Two monsters -- The white death -- How microx and Gigant made the universe expand -- Tale of the computer that fought a dragon -- The advisers of King Hydrops -- Automatthew's friend -- King Globares and the sages -- The tale of King Gnuff -- The sanatorium of Dr. Vliperdius -- The hunt -- The mask.
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Kirkus Book Review
The 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. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem was born on September 12, 1921. A medical graduate of Cracow University, he is at home both in the sciences and in philosophy, and this broad erudition gives his writings genuine depth. He has published extensively, not only fiction, but also theoretical studies. His books have been translated into 41 languages and sold over 27 million copies. He gained international acclaim for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories, which was first published in 1974. A trend toward increasingly serious philosophical speculation is found in his later works, such as Solaris (1961), which was made into a Soviet film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. He died on March 27, 2006 in Krakow at the age of 84.(Bowker Author Biography)