The Star Diaries

Cosmonaut Ijon Tichy , hapless hero of The Futurological
, Congress , is no stranger to misfortune . Rudderless in space
, left in the lurch by his doddering electrical servant
imprisoned by disguised automatons speaking Chaucerian
English , pleading a shaky case for mankind as Earth’s
delegate to the United Planets , or learning the secret faith of
. robot theologians , he is Gulliver of the universe

Stanislaw Lem steers his long-suffering , increasingly puzzled
diarist through bizarre and dazzling intellectronics of playful
anecdote , pointed satire and outright philosophy as he mulls
. over the central paradox of cybernetic man and his future

Read Lem for yourself . He is a major writer and one of the
. deep spirits of our age – New York Times

He has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realising the
. tragedy and comedy of future machines’ – Philip Jose Farmer

Splendidly malicious fables . A Munchausen apparatus
to accommodate some witty , near-Swiftian philosophical
. razor-slashes’ – Tom Hutchinson , The Times

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