The Star Diaries
“The Star Diaries” is a collection of short stories with one main character – the space explorer Ijon Tichy. Stanisław Lem wrote the diaries for over forty years. The first story came out in the beginning of the 50's and the last one - in 1966.
Apart from the title “The Star Diaries” it was also published in two volumes under titled “Memoirs of a Space Traveller" (1982, London).
When the reader of this book is travelling with its main character – the famous space explorer Tichy, they forget the fear of the alien Cosmos – Ijon Tichy feels at home everywhere, nothing can disturb him, and his sense of humor and self-confidence overcome all obstacles.
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have been sold in over 27 million copies. At one point, he was the most widely read non-English-language science fiction author in the world.
His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, to avoid both trappings of academic life and limitations of readership and scientific style, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult; Michael Kandel's translations into English have generally been praised as capturing the spirit of the original.
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