Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand)....

A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations \"Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to......

\"What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?\" From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines....

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover....

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Ijon Tichy, Lem\"s Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author....

A scientific team arrives on Solaris, an uninhabited world revolving around two suns. The vast protoplasmic ocean that completely covers the planet for centuries remains an irritating mystery. Upon his arrival, Dr....

\"Solaris\" is the masterpiece of Polish author Stanislaw Lem, a psychological drama set in space which is both a gripping page turner and a profound exploration of the potential of the science fiction genre....