The Star DiariesStanislaw LemLabel: Penguin ClassicsDescription: A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw Lem's set of short stories written over a period of twenty years all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps spying on robots encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology theology intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers
