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Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age — The New York Times
"On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of his six hundred arms."
Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic translator Michael Kandel, who has somehow battled through Lem's jokes, parodies, fabricated technological terms, and unreliable robots, and brilliantly converted them from Polish into English.
Encompassing his Fables for Robots and stories from his protagonists Ijon Tichy (from The Star Diaries) and Pirx the Pilot, this is a highly entertaining but also deeply alarming view of the glories and absurdities of Outer Space.
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Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem is widely praised for its imaginative themes and intellectual depth. According to The Guardian, Lem is regarded as a major figure in 20th-century science fiction, while John Clute from The Independent highlights Lem's status as Poland's leading intellectual in the realm of imaginative writing for half a century.
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ISBN: 9780241269077
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 October 2016
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 181g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad, Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.
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