Ijon 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.
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.
Playful, absurd, irreverent and philosophical, The Star Diaries hold a satirical mirror up to humanity to examine freedom, technology and existence itself."--Page 4 of cover.
... The Star Diaries, Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, transl. M. Kandel, New York 1976, p. 47. 89. Ibid., p. 52. 90. Ibid., p. 59. 91. L.L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, p. 38. 92. S. Lem, “The Eleventh Voyage ...
... Ijon Tichy's Seventh Voyage” [1971] in Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences Of Ijon Tichy. Trans. Michael Kandel. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. ———. The Invincible [1964]. New York: Ace, 1973. ———. Solaris [1961]. Trans ...
... Ijon Tichy]. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (for an English translation see The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (1985). Philadelphia: Harvest Books). Rasch, D., Herrend ̈orfer, G., Bock, J., Victor, N., & Guiard, V. (2008) ...
Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy Stanislaw Lem. PUBLISHER'S NOTE The pieces in this book—the two voyages of Ijon Tichy, his reminiscences, his open letter—all appeared in the 1971 Polish edition of Dziennikigwiazdowe (“The Star Diaries ...
... The Star Diaries (1976), Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (1979), Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1979), and More Tales of Pirx the Pilot (1982). 23. Robert Sheckley, “Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in ...
