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Tales of Pirx the Pilot

Stanislaw Lem

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Penguin
05 November 2019
The adventures of one of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx- a 'space truck driver' and everyman in Outer Space

Mission- vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraft vehicles of the JO-2 type. There await further instructions.

Tales of Pirx the Pilot imagines a world in which space travel has become routine and boring - an unremarkable aspect of the human condition.

Pirx graduates through a series of stories from cadet to captain.

He is regaled with anecdotes of the glory days, when space travel was dangerous and thrilling.

And yet, even as he sits at the controls cursing that his little puzzle toy won't work in zero-gravity conditions or as he makes himself comfy on the luxury space cruise ship Intergalactic, things keep going terribly wrong.

As the cyberneticist Professor Taurov sighs- 'We have no choice but to trust to our technology.

Without it we would never have set foot on the Moon.

But. . . sometimes we have to pay a high price for that trust.'

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   168g
ISBN:   9780241400227
ISBN 10:   0241400228
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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