Tales of Pirx the Pilot (First English Language Edition)
Stanislaw Lem (author); Louis Iribarne (translator)
Language: English
Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1979
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- Hardcover
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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First printing (with correct letter line of "B C D E") wityh FIRST EDITION stated above. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy with price ($7.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Light offsetting on front pastedown and front endpaper. Very light foxing on top edge. The planet Pirx (BD+14 4559 b) was discovered in 2009, and named after the titular main character.
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- Title
- Tales of Pirx the Pilot (First English Language Edition)
- Author
- Stanislaw Lem (author); Louis Iribarne (translator)
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0151879788
- ISBN 13
- 9780151879786
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Polish Literature, Science Fiction
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From the Back Cover
Follow Pilot Pirx-a bumbling and irresistibly likeable astronaut-through five adventures set in a time when space travel has become routine. Pirx is charged with investigating strange space accidents, perhaps because his superiors appreciate his flair, or perhaps because they consider him expendable. The tales build to a towering climax when in the final installment, Pirx must decipher a spaceship's sinister past with the help of a robot's retentive memory.
At once audacious, childlike, and intuitive, the character of Pirx offers a wonderful vision of the very qualities that may, in the future, give us the courage to confront the vastness and uncertainty of outer space.
"Lem is not only a marvelous spinner of tales of the fantastic but also a challenging philosopher of the meanings and ramifications of technology." -Chicago Tribune
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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