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.

About this edition

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