Mortal Engines

Author: Stanislaw Lem

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780241269077
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin Classics
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  • : September 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
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  • : November 2016
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  • : Stanislaw Lem
  • : Penguin Modern Classics
  • : Paperback
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  • : eng
  • : 891.85373
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Description

'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artificial mind, but his dreams rebel. These stories range from surreal fables that satirically turn the fairy tale on its head, to longer works including the man vs. robot thriller, 'The Hunt', and possibly fiction's strangest love story, 'The Mask'. In Mortal Engines Stanislaw Lem lays bare humanity's clash with machines, masterfully exploring science fiction's furthest frontiers."  "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 Star Diaries, The Cyberiad,The Summa Technologiae and The Futurological Congress."

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

Author description

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 Star Diaries, The Cyberiad, The Summa Technologiae and The Futurological Congress.