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F. Carroll McMahan

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American Heritage

Enter the forest with author F. Carroll McMahan as he tells dramatic, fascinating and sometimes humorous stories of a man who lived truly on his own terms. Born in 1889 in the Smoky Mountains, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most recognized figures. Sight-impaired from an early age, Lem spent his life logging, bear hunting, farming and tending his beehives. He welcomed the arrival of logging operations into the pristine wilderness but became an eyewitness to the devastation it brought...

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Stanislaw Lem

The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. " Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. " — The Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in C...

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Stanislaw Lem

A space cruiser encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines in this classic science fiction novel with echoes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.“A giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick.” —The New York TimesStanisław Lem’s The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship ...

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Will Welton

As a young boy that was half Scottish and half Chickasaw Indian the just tried to do right and always came up wrong. He tracked down a gang of murders and along the way met a beautiful woman. He married her and they made a large ranch together with two adopted kids that were Comanche Indian.

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Stanislaw Lem

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From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space, satirizing science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.A space explorer travels undercover to a robot world, joining an organization to clean up world history through time travel. The universe may never be the same . . ."Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, sneaking around in cybernetic drag on a planet of mad robots...

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Stanislaw Lem

Translated by

Michael Kandel

Ingenious essays from "a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory" ( The New York Times Book Review).In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outside of his fictional comfort zone to try his hand at reviewing the literature of others. The only catch is this: None of these books have actually been published—or even written—he just made them up.These sixteen satiri...

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Stanislaw Lem

Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris.“The universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem.” —Washington PostBy pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing...

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Stanislaw Lem

Translated by

Michael Kandel, Christine Rose

The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from "the Borges of scientific culture" ( Time).The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight—papyralysis—has obliterated much of the planet's written history. Fortunately, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community . . .From the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris, this is an entert...

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Darkly Lem

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The Formation Saga

From bestselling authors Darkly Lem, Transmentation | Transience is the first book in a vast, multiverse-spanning epic where power, ideology, and ambition collide across infinite worlds.Over thousands of years and thousands of worlds, universe-spanning societies of interdimensional travelers have arisen. Some seek to make the multiverse a better place, some seek power and glory, others knowledge, while still others simply want to write their own tale acros...

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Stanislaw Lem

From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates "a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad" ( Kirkus Reviews).Six explorers—the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist—crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick spiderlike vegetation. But it is the signs of humanity that a...

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Stanislaw Lem

"A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel" from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris ( The New York Times).The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth's excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use the expansive space technology developed by humanity to seek new worlds, friendships, and alliances. But what its crew discovers on the planet Quinta...

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Stanislaw Lem

"The computer may ultimately be right. But for the time being, in Imaginary Magnitude , an entertaining and intelligent mortal has the first word." —Paul Gray, TimeSatirizing the human mind at its most abstract, these wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-g...