Memoirs of a Space Traveler

Memoirs of a Space Traveler Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy - The MIT Press

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The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.

Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange experiments involving, among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy encounters make plans that are grandiose, and strike bargains that are Faustian. They pursue humanity's greatest and most ancient obsessions: immortality, artificial intelligence, and top-of-the-line consumer items.

By turns satirical, philosophical, and absurd, these stories express the most starkly original and prescient notions of a master of speculative fiction.

Book information

ISBN: 9780262538503
Publisher: The MIT Press
Imprint: The MIT Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 891.85373
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 202g
Height: 137mm
Width: 202mm
Spine width: 14mm