Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride
Ijon Tichy Series
Embark on wild and unexpected cosmic adventures across the vastness of space. Encounter bizarre civilizations and strange creatures that serve as sharp satire on science, reason, and human pride. Each story is filled with incredible inventions and absurd situations designed to provoke thought and laughter. This is a fascinating journey exploring the boundaries of human knowledge and imagination.
Recommended Reading Order
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- 1
@lt;DIV@gt;Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@lt;br@gt;@lt;/div@gt;
- 2
Memoirs of a Space Traveler
- 200 pages
- 7 hours of reading
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.
- 3
The Futurological Congress
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian 'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management' Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
- 4
Peace on Earth
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can’t remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won’t tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides. Translated by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
- 5
„Ein Roman? Nicht genug. Ein Buch, das über die Ufer tritt und mitreißt, was Formen und Inhalte zu bieten imstande sind. Der Erzähler heißt Ijon Tichy. Die Leser der »Sterntagebücher« erinnern sich dieses kosmischen Münchhausen; hier nimmt er seine Arbeit wieder auf: als Forscher, Berichterstatter, Reisender im Irdischen und Außerirdischen. Tichys Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen in Kurdland, in den Grenzgebieten und in Losannien faßt das Kapitel »Lokaltermin« zusammen. Insbesondere wird von der Ethikosphäre in Losannien berichtet, deren Einführung durch die nicht mehr zu kontrollierende Zunahme von Gewalttaten unvermeidbar geworden war. Und angesichts dieser ethifizierten Welt erörtert Tichy die Frage, ob ein solch frevelfreier Zustand Auswirkungen auf die Unsterblichkeit haben könnte.“
