Product details
ISBN
9780241334355
Published
2018
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
253 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
19 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author
Biographical note
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad, Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'
The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...
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The latest in the regular publication in Penguin Modern Classics of Lem's major works, following Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Cyberiad and The Futurological Congress.
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Product details
ISBN
9780241334355
Published
2018
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Weight
253 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
19 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author