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Books narrated by Peter Lems

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  • Dialogues

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Peter Butko ...
    The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971.In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a book "conceived under the spell of cybernetics," as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Lem's original dialogue was ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • His Master's Voice

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Invincible

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Star Diaries

    Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Series Book 1 - 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, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Futurological Congress

    by 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... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Perfect Vacuum

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Memoirs of a Space Traveler

    Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    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, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Eden

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

    by 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Return from the Stars

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    **An astronaut returns to Earth after a 10-year mission to find a utopian society he hardly recognizes in this classic science fiction novel by the author of Solaris.“[Lem’s] marvelous, absorbing and often hilarious books make our weary universe seem pale and undistinguished by comparison.” —The Washington Post**Stanisław Lem’s Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Truth and Other Stories

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    Experience a sci-fi master at his finest in this collection of 12 science fiction short stories from 1956 to 1993—many now presented in English for the very first time!“A brilliant introduction to Lem’s science fiction.” —Wall Street JournalDiscover the full range of Stanislaw Lem’s intense curiosity about scientific ideas—and his sardonic approach to human nature—in this unforgettable collection ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Solaris

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Torbjörn Elensky ...
    En av de stora science fiction-klassikernaKris Kelvin anländer till forskningsstationen på den havstäckta planeten Solaris bara timmar efter att en av dess tre invånare oförklarligt har avlidit. Han varnas av de andra: Ser du någon som inte är vi, gör då ingenting, gå inte till angrepp. Förbryllad över varningen gör sig Kelvin hemmastadd, men inser snart att den väldiga oceanen utanför rymmer ett ... Read more

    $11.05 USD