Helen and Kurt Wolff Books Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, (Paperback)

from ikeman100

This is my first book by the very funny Stanislaw Lem. Writing in his Polish native language in the 1950s, he wrote some wonderful satirical SF stories. When you are stuck behind the iron curtain you have to keep a sense of humor. At my current age I do not normally like satire. I read enough whe...

from TeaTimeCoder

Not one but two allegories scathing of communism, yet presumably went past the censors. In the same way a lot of great science fiction goes past literature buffs because it's just science fiction.

from baltazargabka

I read this as a 12 y.o. kid and then again as a 20something y.o. and got completly different experiences. Loved it both times. Lem is seriously dated in terms of style and takes some time to get used to. The everpresent undercurrent of the moral questioning, the humanist quest for defining of wh...

from Kristelh

The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem is a group of short stories that the author wrote over a time period from 1950s and expanded and reissued in 1971. The stories are travel logs of space traveler, Ijon Tichy and translated by Michael Kandel from the polish in 1976. The Introduction and Introductio...

from mrgan

From outrageous, Jack Handey-esque farce to the meditation on the human condition you can see in Solaris, this is Lem at his most eclectic. The philosophical passages may be dense, but they're genuinely insightful; the goofy comedy is light, but extremely entertaining. It all adds up to a very lo...