Mortal Engines
$25.09
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2016
Summary
‘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 conve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241269077 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241269075 |
| Author: | Stanislaw Lem |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 130mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A giant of 20th-century science fiction
A giant of 20th-century science fiction * The Guardian *
Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland’s premier intellectual of the imagination – John Clute * The Independent *
Stanislaw Lem
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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