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Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth ...Show more
Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artifici ...Show more
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
The Three Electroknights (Mini Modern Classics) by Stanislaw Lem
$3.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
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.
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