Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262538503)

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.

Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange experiments involving, among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy encounters make plans that are grandiose, and strike bargains that are Faustian. They pursue humanity's greatest and most ancient obsessions: immortality, artificial intelligence, and top-of-the-line consumer items.

By turns satirical, philosophical, and absurd, these stories express the most starkly original and prescient notions of a master of speculative fiction.

Author: Stanislaw Lem
ISBN-10: 0262538504
ISBN-13: 9780262538503
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020