A much-loved classic from a giant of european science-fiction.
Stanislaw Lem was a Polish author best known for his 1961 science fiction novel Solaris. He also wrote several other SF works including Eden (1959) and His Master's Voice (1968). Lem's books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold over 45 million copies. He was awarded numerous honours for his writing, including the City of Krak w's Prize in Literature, the Grand Prix de Litterature Polici re and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Lem died in 2006, aged 84.
A giant of 20th-century science fiction
*Guardian*
A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age
*New York Times*
The linguistic inventiveness is extraordinary ... Lem has created a
curious world in which robots and rockets rub shoulders with kings,
dragons, witches and pirates
*Independent on Sunday*
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