Description
Product ID: | 9780241339398 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern |
Title: | The Three Electroknights |
Authors: | Author: Stanislaw Lem |
Page Count: | 64 |
Subjects: | Classic science fiction, Classic science fiction, Short stories, Short stories |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. ''What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'' |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-02-22 |