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Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.

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Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes--with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing * Kirkus Reviews *
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 *

The Star Diaries

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    A Paperback / softback by Stanislaw Lem

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 31/12/2015
      ISBN13: 9780241240021, 978-0241240021
      ISBN10: 0241240026
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.

      Trade Review
      Lem veers between joyous slapstick, freewheeling satire, and insanely involuted logical paradoxes--with surprisingly serious excursions into issues of will and faith. Funny, unexpected, tantalizing * Kirkus Reviews *
      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 *

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