From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
Description
‘What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?’
From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Additional information
Weight | 0.044 kg |
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Dimensions | 16.1 × 11.1 × 0.4 cm |
Book_author | Lem, Stanislaw |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Cover | Paperback |
Pages | 64 |
Language | English |
Edition | Short stories |
Dewey | 891.85373 (edition:23) |
Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |