A Perfect Vacuum - Hardcover

Lem, Stanislaw

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151716978 ISBN 13: 9780151716975

Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

Synopsis

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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Review

Praise for Stanislaw Lem:
"İLem is¨ a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept of philosophy and physics, from free will to probability theory."
--"New York Times Book Review"
Praise for Stanislaw Lem:
"[Lem is] a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept of philosophy and physics, from free will to probability theory."
--"New York Times Book Review"
Praise for Stanislaw Lem:

"[Lem is] a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept of philosophy and physics, from free will to probability theory."
--"New York Times Book Review"
Praise for Stanislaw Lem:
"[Lem is] a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept of philosophy and physics, from free will to probability theory."
--New York Times Book Review
Praise for Stanislaw Lem:

"[Lem is] a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept of philosophy and physics, from free will to probability theory."
--New York Times Book Review

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151716978
• ISBN 13: 9780151716975
• Binding: Hardcover