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A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside spa.

Phantastische Geschichten vom Piloten Pirx.

Miután az emberiségnek sikerült végrehajtania a távoli naprendszerekbe való galaktikus ugrást, expedíció indul az öt fényévnyire lévő Quintára annak kipuhatolására, hogy létezik-e élet és másik értelem ezen a különös, baljós bolygón…

Başka bir güneşin dördüncü gezegeni… Altı kişilik mürettebat, yere çakılan uzay gemisinden canlarını kurtarıp güçlükle dışarı çıktıklarında, başka bir dünyada olduklarını biliyorlardı. Ama Aden gezegeni, atmosferinin solumaya uygun olmasına rağmen “başka bir dünya” değildi. Onları ne uzaydan gelenlere tapınan vahşiler karşıladı ne de yıldızlararası iletişime gönüllü bir uygarlığın temsilcileri… Soluk alıp veren dev ağaçlar, bitkileri andıran binalar, doğal labirentler, dev aynalar, “ikiyaşarlı” canlılar, geçitler ve anlam veremedikleri yığınla şey arasında, korkuyla izlerini sürdükleri uygarlığa erişmeye, onunla iletişim kurmaya çalıştılar. İletişim kurmak kolay değildi. Araştırdıkları her yerde, ölümün değişik yüzleriyle karşılaşıyorlardı: Kitle mezarları, su dolu çukurlarda saklanan cesetler, iskeletler… Gezegeni Dünyalı gözleriyle anlamaya çalışan mürettebat, bu farklı uygarlıkla iletişim kurmaya çalışırken, sarsıcı deneyimlerle ve şiddetle yüzleşmek zorunda kalacaktı… Bilimkurgu edebiyatının en önemli yazarlarından biri olan Stanialaw Lem’den, teknolojiye ve iletişime dair felsefi sorularla dolu fantastik bir roman.

Commander Pirx, who drives space vehicles for a living in the galaxy of the future, here faces a new series of intriguing adventures in which robots demonstrate some alarmingly human characteristics.

Five more tales featuring Pirx — a bumbling rookie in the original (1979), now a seasoned and level-headed (but coolly cerebral) space jockey. The first three pieces are short, ironic, and somewhat thin on ideas: Pirx fails to intercept a drifting alien hulk thanks to a shipboard comedy of errors; he searches for a robot that has inexplicably cut loose to go mountain climbing; and he survives a close encounter with a berserk mining robot. The two long yarns, unfortunately, are not so much fiction as rather pedantic reflections on the nature of artificial intelligence: a choppy and overinvolved Turing test, in which Pirx must identify (and foil the murderous plans of) the robot among his crew as they fly through the rings of Saturn; and a talky, motionless analysis of why an intelligent computer aboard an experimental ship went neurotically haywire and crashed on Mars. A ruminative, often discursive bunch, wanting in urgency and drama — without the mature idea-wrestling of last year’s . ()

It is 1939; the Nazis have occupied Poland. A young doctor disturbed by the fate of Poland joins the staff of an insane asylum only to find a world of pain and absurdity to match that outside.

Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Are the self-programming robots on the moon ensuring “peace on Earth,” or are they secretly plotting a terrestrial invasion of their own? Only Ijon Tichy, sent on a dangerous mission to report on the robots’ activities, knows for sure. But, as luck would have it, he is caught by a highly focused ray, which severs his corpus collosum and leaves the left side of his brain at odds with the right.

Has he returned to Earth with the secret that could save all humanity? His left brain can’t remember, and his right brain can’t tell. Agents from the East and the West race to get to Tichy’s forgotten but priceless information first; Tichy, whose left hand keeps punching him and pinching ladies’ bottoms, struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides.

Stanislaw Lem, called by a reviewer “one of the jewels of twentieth-century literature,” is internationally renowned for his science fiction, satire, philosophy, and literary criticism. He was born in Lvov, Poland, and lives in Krakow.

In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, internationally acclaimed grand master Stanislaw Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Lem believes that science fiction should attempt to discover what hasn’t been thought or done before. Too often, says Lem, science fiction resorts to well-worn patterns of primitive adventure literature, plays empty games with the tired devices of time travel and robots, and is oblivious to cultural and intellectual values. An expert examination of the scientific and literary premises of his own and other writers’ work, this collection is quintessential Lem.

Im 21. Jahrhundert sind die Großmächte übereingekommen, auf Erden abzurüsten und die gesamten Waffenarsenale auf den Mond zu verlagern; in durch neutrale Zonen getrennte Sektoren. Analog dem Prinzip der natürlichen Evolution organischer Lebewesen vollzieht sich auf dem Mond eine Selbstoptimierung der Waffensysteme, völlig autonom. Niemand auf Erden weiß, was sich auf dem Mond wirklich abspielt, welche Seite inzwischen einen Vorsprung gewonnen haben mag, die „Doktrin der totalen Unkenntnis“ wird strikt eingehalten. Automatische Aufklärungssonden gehen spurlos verloren. Zeit also für Ijon Tichy, Lems unermüdlichen Weltraumreisenden, der nie zögert, wenn es gilt, die Menschheit zu retten, als Agent der „Lunar Agency“ auf dem Mond nach dem Rechten zu sehen. Leider zieht er sich dabei eine Kallotomie zu, sein Gehirn wird in zwei Teile aufgespalten, was zu für ihn grotesken Folgen führt, denn zwei Seelen oder zwei Gehirnhälften liegen alsbald in ihm in Widerstreit miteinander, treiben ihn bald dahin, bald dorthin. Es kommt aber noch dicker, denn vom Mond hat Tichy etwas auf die Erde mitgebracht, was den gesamten Verlauf der irdischen Zivilisation nachhaltig verändert.

In three scathingly humorous reviews of not-yet-written books, Stanislaw Lem brings us insights into the life of the 21st century. “One Human Minute” summarizes the activities of every person on earth during a single minute. “The Upside-Down Evolution” depicts a battlefield devoid of human activity, where synthetic bugs—synsects—vie for supremacy. “The World as Cataclysm” unfolds the universe as a crooked roulette wheel, where cosmic catastrophe prevails over orderly evolution. All reflect the speculative imagination and dark humor that have made Lem a grand master of the science fiction genre.

In this widely acclaimed sequel to , Ijon Tichy, space traveler of future centuries, discovers that “out there” isn’t very different from “down here.” Especially when he finds a galactic society over which the Plenum Moronicum presides, which appoints as ruler a ruthless Machine; the inhabitants, docilely cooperating in their own destruction, go by the name of Phools.

Tichy seems to attract inventors of splenetic genius, such as the madman who has invented the soul, or another who invents kitchen appliances so good at their jobs they might as well be wives or slaves. Throughout these nine wild adventures, surprise follows witty surprise for the discerning reader of riotously imaginative fiction.

STANISLAW LEM, who “knows science well enough to be playful about it” (), lives in Poland and is the author of books translated into nearly thirty languages, including and .

In this sequel to , Ijon Tichy, space traveler of future centuries, discovers that “out there” isn’t very different from “down here.” Throughout these nine wild adventures, surprise follows witty surprise.

Line drawings by the Author.

Space wasn’t half so scary, half so strange, or even half so alien, as what Hal Bregg returned to. He had been away from Planet Earth for ten years space-time. But that was 127 years back home and a lot of things had changed. Sex. Money. Transit. Violence. There’s no more violence. Everyone gets it “betrizated” out of them in childhood. And that’s just the beginning…

Naturally, Hal refuses to be acclimated by the “Adapt” people. He prefers to figure it out all by himself, be a stranger in a strange land, draw his own conclusions. And he does.

“In the unlikely event that a science-fiction writer is deemed worthy of a Nobel Prize in the near future, the most likely candidate would be a Pole named Stanislaw Lem,” states THE NEW YORK TIMES. And FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION writes, “One of the world’s finest writers… Lem has accomplished the difficult illusion of showing us a future world which may be distasteful to us, but which may be seen as quite legitimate and even desirable by its own people, and by us, if we were to change certain ways of seeing and understanding.”

Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. Over the course of their adventures in , they travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their unsuspecting employers. Playfully written, and ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem’s vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.

These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be.

Un glont trebuia sa nimereasca pe campul acela de tragere si un individ oarecare trebuia sa nimereasca in miezul acestei probleme. Si daca e asa, atunci, indiferent de autor si de editor, aparitia acestei carti este si ea o certitudine matematica.

Data wydania polskiego: 1964

Stanislaw Lem, Pole, Jahrgang 1921, ist heute einer der beliebtesten Autoren im Ostblock. Nach einem Debüt mit Lyrik, Kurzgeschichten und einem preisgekrönten Roman führte ihn sein Interesse an der Kybernetik in ein neues literarisches Genre: das der Science-fiction. Für Lem ist die Utopie mehr als ein Spiel der Phantasie. Sie wird für ihn zu einem Spiegel der gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft, in dem die Chancen künftiger Entwicklungen mitreflektiert werden, und damit zum Medium der Kritik an den bestehenden Verhältnissen. Nicht immer finden die skurrilen Einfälle des überzeugten, dabei von Parteiideologie freien Marxisten den Beifall orthodoxer offizieller Stellen. Aber allein in der Sowjetunion beträgt die Gesamtauflage seiner Bücher weit über drei Millionen.

Die Geschichten sind im 21. bis 22. Jahrhundert in der westlichen Welt angesiedelt, in der die Menschheit das komplette Sonnensystem und umliegende Systeme zu besiedeln beginnt und bereits einige Kolonien auf Mond und Mars gegründet hat.

In den Geschichten geht es um den Piloten Pirx, der im Weltall oder auf extraterrestrischen Stationen beschäftigt ist. Er wird dabei eher als Antiheld dargestellt, an dem wenig Heroisches der „klassischen“ Weltraumhelden zu finden ist. Die immer wieder auftretenden Extremsituationen löst er durch gesunden Menschenverstand und etwas Glück. Der Gegenpart zu Pirx ist häufig ein Roboter oder eine andere Maschine (z. B. sein Raumschiff).

Die vorliegende Sammlung utopischer Geschichten zeigt die reiche Skala Lem’scher Phantasie. Geht es hier um die oft gespenstischen Abenteuer, die Weltraumnavigator Pirx mit detektivischem Verstand zu meistern hat, so entwikkeln dort überperfektionierte Küchenmaschinen eine beunruhigende Eigenaktivität. In Unterschmudorf schließlich scheitern ehrgeizige Pläne der Aldebaraner, und in Kybera entdeckt ein von der Kybernetik faszinierter König das Parkinsonsche Gesetz der Kriegsmaschinerie und läßt von da an das Kriegführen lieber sein.

A könyv két részből áll. Az első rész népmeseszerű kiszólásokkal teli „tanulságos mesékre” hasonlít, míg a második rész Trurl és Klapanciusz, a két tudós mérnök versengéséről és találmányaikról, kalandjaikról szól Stanislaw Lem utánozhatatlan stílusában. Lem humora kitűnő, miközben novellái filozófiai mélységeket járnak be könnyed hangvétellel. Lem a klasszikus értelemben vett sci-fi szabályait félretéve kalandozik az időben, hihetetlen leleményességgel ötvözve a régmúlt idők életének napi eszközeit a távoli jövő technikai vívmányaival, és így érdekes matematikai, fizikai fogalmak fűszerezte történetekben szórakozhatunk a kardot forgató robotok nagyon is emberi történetein.

A mű keletkezési idejét figyelembe véve kijelenthető, hogy az író filozófiai alapgondolatai örök érvényességgel bírnak: megmutatja, hogy az idők és a díszletek változnak ugyan, maga az Ember azonban nem.

A powerful sublight interstellar space ship, a “class two cruiser” called , lands on the planet which seems uninhabited and bleak, to investigate the loss of sister ship, . During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a form of quasi-life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines, apparently left behind by an alien civilization that visited the planet a very long time ago. The evolution was controlled by “robot wars”, and the only form that survived were swarms of minuscule, insect-like micromachines. Individually, or in small groups, they are quite harmless to humans and capable of only very simple behavior. However, when bothered, they can assemble into huge swarms displaying complex behavior arising from self-organization, and are able to defeat an intruder by a powerful surge of EMI. Some members of the spacecraft crew suffered a complete memory erasure as a consequence. Big clouds of “insects” are also able to travel at a high speed and even to climb to the top of troposphere. The angered crew attempts to fight the perceived enemy, but eventually recognizes the meaninglessness of their efforts in the most direct sense of the word. The robotic “fauna” has become part of the planets ecology, and would require a disruption on planetary scale (such as a nuclear winter) to be destroyed.

The novel turns into an analysis of the relationship between different life domains, and their place in the universe. In particular, it is an imaginary experiment to demonstrate that evolution may not necessarily lead to dominance by intellectually superior life forms. The plot also involves a Conrad-like dilemma, juxtaposing the values of humanity and the efficiency of mechanical insects. In the face of defeat and imminent withdrawal of , Rohan, the spaceship's navigator, undertakes a trip into the 'enemy area' in search of 4 crew members who went missing in action — an attempt which he and captain Horpach see as probably futile, but necessary for moral reasons. Rohan struck into mountains covered by metallic “shrubs” and “insects” and found these crewmen dead. He gathers some evidence and returns to the ship unharmed because of successful operation of the anti-detection device they managed to create for that purpose.