Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Stanisław Lem

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982 - Fiction - 153 pages

The adventures and encounters of Ijon Tichy, tourist of the universe. Tichy reveals that "out there" is not so different from "down here," since people are people everywhere. When not traveling in space, he is a magnet for eccentric unrecognized inventors of spenetic genius, whose spooky experiments are revealed to him with megalomaniacal pride.

Contents

• The Eighteenth Voyage: 3
• The Twentyfourth Voyage: 17
• V: 89

About the author

Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem was born on September 12, 1921. A medical graduate of Cracow University, he is at home both in the sciences and in philosophy, and this broad erudition gives his writings genuine depth. He has published extensively, not only fiction, but also theoretical studies. His books have been translated into 41 languages and sold over 27 million copies. He gained international acclaim for The Cyberiad, a series of short stories, which was first published in 1974. A trend toward increasingly serious philosophical speculation is found in his later works, such as Solaris (1961), which was made into a Soviet film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. He died on March 27, 2006 in Krakow at the age of 84.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy; A Helen and Kurt Wolff book
• Author: Stanisław Lem
• Illustrated by: Stanisław Lem
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 18, 2008
• ISBN: 0151588562, 9780151588565
• Length: 153 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Science Fiction / General