Hakutulokset: Michael Kandel
yhteensä 25 hakutulosta
A Perfect Vacuum
This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. …
His Master's Voice
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from …
Highcastle
A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar …
More Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly …
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from ';the Borges of scientific culture' (Time). The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blightpapyralysishas obliterated much of …
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to …
Nest of Worlds
Nest of Worlds is the first novel to appear in English from contemporary Polish science fiction master Marek S. Huberath. This metafictional adventure, owing as much to Borges, …
Stanislaw Lem: Selected Letters to Michael Kandel
Stanislaw Lem died on 26 March, 2006 but in this book his voice can be heard afresh for the benefit of all those who believe that, with his passing, a quintessential element of …
Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
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 …
On the Road to Babadag
Journey through Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, and other places neglected by tourists, with “an accomplished stylist with an eye for telling detail” (Irvine Welsh). Andrzej Stasiuk is …