Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a fut
The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
โ Scribed by Lem, Stanislaw
- Publisher
- HMH Books
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547539800
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