Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 233 results for “stanislas lem”
Skip side bar filters

  • Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby

    Sage of the Smokies

    by F. Carroll McMahan ...
    Series series American Heritage
    Enter the forest with author F. Carroll McMahan as he tells dramatic, fascinating and sometimes humorous stories of a man who lived truly on his own terms. Born in 1889 in the Smoky Mountains, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most recognized figures. Sight-impaired from an early age, Lem spent his life logging, bear hunting, farming and tending his beehives. He welcomed the arrival of logging ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Human Minute

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Catherine S. Leach ...
    Essays by the author of Solaris: "Lem's delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity's possible fate" ( Publishers Weekly).In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications it could have for the future—in satirical, wise, and biting prose.With this collection of three essays, Lem targets ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Futurological Congress

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. " Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. " — The Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Polish author Stanislaw Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress in C... ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eden

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates "a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad" ( Kirkus Reviews).Six explorers—the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist—crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Investigation

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Adele Milch ...
    An eerie and offbeat mystery by a Kafka Prize–winning author.The case confronting Lieutenant Gregory is not one that a man of Scotland Yard would expect. In fact, it is not one any sane man would care to entertain. Bodies are disappearing. The initial assumption is that a grave robber is roaming London and defiling local morgues. But upon further examination, it seems the deceased are, in fact, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Perfect Vacuum

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Ingenious essays from "a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory" ( The New York Times Book Review).In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outside of his fictional comfort zone to try his hand at reviewing the literature of others. The only catch is this: None of these books have actually been published—or even ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Star Diaries

    Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Series Book 1 - From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
    Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space, satirizing science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.A space explorer travels undercover to a robot world, joining an organization to clean up world history through time travel. The universe may never be the same . . ."Tichy bumbles and stumbles around the cosmos running out of gas between stars, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel, Christine Rose ...
    The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from "the Borges of scientific culture" ( Time).The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight—papyralysis—has obliterated much of the planet's written history. Fortunately, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community . . .From the Kafka Prize ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • His Master's Voice

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris.“The universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem.” —Washington PostBy pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Invincible

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    A space cruiser encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines in this classic science fiction novel with echoes of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.“A giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick.” —The New York TimesStanisław Lem’s The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imaginary Magnitude

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    "The computer may ultimately be right. But for the time being, in Imaginary Magnitude , an entertaining and intelligent mortal has the first word." —Paul Gray, TimeSatirizing the human mind at its most abstract, these wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-g ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fiasco

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    "A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel" from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris ( The New York Times).The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth's excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use the expansive space technology developed by humanity to seek new worlds, friendships, and alliances. But what its ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus