Tales Of Pirx The Pilot & More Tales Of Pirx The Pilot Stanislaw Lem 1st Edition

Description: Immerse yourself in the fantastic world of science fiction with the rare and collectible hardcover with dust jacket 1979 first edition of "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" and 1982 first edition of More Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem. Please see pictures for condition of items. TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character-an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants. He is a bumbler, but an inspired one. We are at a moment in time when the Transgalactic Line fies regularly to the Moon, which by now provides excellent tourist accommodations; space travel has become routine. Yet things go wrong, mysteriously and suspiciously, and Pirx is the one to investigate strange accidents, either because his superiors consider him expendable, or because they trust his flair. Whimsical, spellbinding, infused with Lem's uncannily vivid "familiarity" with the day-to-day realities and regions of space travel, the tales of Pilot Pirx build up to a towering climax. We meet Pirx in school, embarking on a training mission that is to drive home to him, with devastating impact, the inadequacy of textbook knowledge in an astronaut's arsenal. In "Terminus," the last and longest adventure, Pirx deciphers a spaceship's sinister past with the help of a robot's retentive memory; the writing devel. ops a new dimension, revealing Lem's imaginative affinity with robots, whom he endows with something akin to feelings. By investing his central character, Pirx, with the full range of human foibles, Lem offers here a wonderful vision of the audac-ity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that may give man the courage to confront the vastness of outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne MORE TALES OF PIRX THE PILOT Pirx, the bumbling oronout who won widespread criticol occlaim in Tales of Pix the Piot, here faces a new senes of intriguing adventures-in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human charaderistics. These five stories, all deftly blending playfulness and suspense, reflect lem's preoccupation with the technology of the future and his fascination with the ort ficial brain. The skeptical, commonsensical Pirx, one of the most endeaning characters in Lem's universe, wrestles every step of the way with his mixed feelings about robots, beings that fill him with mounting suspicion and apprehen sion. One robot Pinx encounters in his interplanetary travels comes to gnef by developing a human trait, gratitude. Another is so affected by the example of his human componions that he totally suc cumbs to the lure of mountain dimbing— and pays for it dearly. Pirx finds that it is indeed a fine line that separates a robot robot from a human robot. Or is there one? In Lem the cold and aloof technology of the future is studded with deep humanity ond high lyricism. Each story, you might say, is a perfect constellation. Translated by Louis Iribarne

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