The Star Diaries

By: Stanislaw Lem

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Paperback | 1 March 2016 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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'What I had taken for a soft drink vending machine turned out to be the deputy chairman of the Rhohch delegation in full regalia' The cosmic voyages of space traveller Ijon Tichy take him on strange adventures in a vast stellar wilderness - encountering clones, crazed mutinous robots and tiny beings, meeting his future self in a time loop, avoiding interplanetary diplomatic incidents and dealing with an orbiting piece of beef sirloin. Playful, absurd, irreverent and philosophical, The Star Diaries hold a satirical mirror up to humanity to examine freedom, technology and existence itself. Translated by Michael Kandel 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction.' Guardian

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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 *

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