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This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole" (Detroit News). A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris.
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Text: English, Polish (translation)
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- PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0151716978
- ISBN 13 9780151716975
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages229
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