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More Tales Of Pirx The Pilot
Published by Octopus / Mandarin, 1990
ISBN 10: 0749304707ISBN 13: 9780749304706
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Paperback: 7¾" x 5". Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Luis Rey (illustrator). 1990 Edition. © 1982: A collection of 5 short stories by Stanislaw Lem. 1st printing of 1990 edition. Translated by Louis Iribarne & Michael Kandel:- Contents: Pirx's Tale / The Accident / The Hunt / The Inquest / Ananke:- Synopsis: Cruising the cosmos. Gone are the romantic pioneering days of space travel. So small wonder that Commander Pirx, now a senior astronaut on those long intergalactic trips which can drag on for a year at full thrust, sometimes turns to sci-fi for kicks. But Pirx, for all his expertise, can still be disconcerted by the faint interface between humanity and technology - especially when his ship is struck down by mumps rather than meteorites, the crew is infiltrated by imposters, and robots begin to show alarmingly human characteristics like being nosy or climbing mountains:- Review(s): "One of the great stylists of contemporary SF. 'More Tales Of Pirx The Pilot' amply demonstrates Lem's ability to marry sharp characterisation with convincing technological detail in a vision of a spacegoing future" - City Limits / "Fable-turning of the wittiest absorbing kind" - The Times / "His best stuff is right up there with Borges and Calvino" - San Francisco Chronicle:- (original cost £4.99).
