Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.

An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II.

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.

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.

An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes.

'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this playful cosmic fantasia, two 'constructors' compete to dream up ever-more ingenious inventions in a universe beyond reality. 'A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays with every concept of philosophy and physics' The New York Times