**The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.** _Memoirs of a Space Traveler_ follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through
Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
โ Scribed by Lem, Stanislaw
- Publisher
- The MIT Press; Lem, Stanislaw, MIT Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Series
- The MIT Press
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- MIT Press 2020
- ISBN
- 0262357739
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โฆ Synopsis
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.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.
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