Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines

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‘A virtuoso storyteller … a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age’ The New York Times’He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.’A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she’s programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artificial mind, but his dreams rebel. These stories range from surreal fables that satirically turn the fairy tale on its head, to longer works including the man vs. robot thriller, ‘The Hunt’, and possibly fiction’s strangest love story, ‘The Mask’. InMortal Engines Stanislaw Lem lays bare humanity’s clash with machines, masterfully exploring science fiction’s furthest frontiers.

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Weight 0.179 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
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Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2016-10-6
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241269075
About The Author

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad, Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.

A giant of 20th-century science fiction
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Stanislaw Lem was for 50 years Poland's premier intellectual of the imagination
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