Lem Stanislaw - The Futurological Congress From The Memoirs Of Ijon Tichy - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize winning author Stanislaw Lem. Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem. Paris Review Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet Earth Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut Ijon Tichy to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured. Translated by Michael Kandel. A vision of Earth's future where the authorities dose the population with psychemicals to make life in a desperately over - populated world worth living. Boston Globe
Title: The Futurological Congress From The Memoirs Of Ijon Tichy
Author(s): Lem Stanislaw
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780156340403
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/28/1985