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“michael kandel”

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  • A Perfect Vacuum

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Ingenious essays from "a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age, who plays in earnest with every concept . . . from free will to probability theory" ( The New York Times Book Review).In A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem steps outside of his fictional comfort zone to try his hand at reviewing the literature of others. The only catch is this: None of these books have actually been published—or even ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel, Christine Rose ...
    The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from "the Borges of scientific culture" ( Time).The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight—papyralysis—has obliterated much of the planet's written history. Fortunately, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community . . .From the Kafka Prize ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nest of Worlds

    by Marek S. Huberath, Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    DescriptionNest of Worlds is the first novel to appear in English from contemporary Polish science fiction master Marek S. Huberath. This metafictional adventure, owing as much to Borges, Saramago, and even Thomas More as it does to Stanislaw Lem, describes a world where every 35 years, all residents must move to a new “Land”, each a rigid caste society based on hair color, and each person bears a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Road to Babadag

    Travels in the Other Europe

    by Andrzej Stasiuk ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Journey through Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, and other places neglected by tourists, with "an accomplished stylist with an eye for telling detail" (Irvine Welsh).Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. By car, train, bus, and ferry, he goes from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine—to small towns and villages with strangely ... Read more

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  • Highcastle

    A Remembrance

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanisław Lem.With Highcastle, Stanisław Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful—“I was a monster,” he observes ruefully—this lively and charming book describes a youth spent reading voraciously (he was especially interested in medical texts and French novels), ... Read more

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  • Nest of Worlds

    by Marek S. Huberath ...
    Translated by Michael Kandel ...
    Nest of Worlds is the first novel to appear in English from contemporary Polish science fiction master Marek S. Huberath. This metafictional adventure, owing as much to Borges, Saramago, and even Thomas More as it does to Stanislaw Lem, describes a world where every thirty-five years, all residents must move to a new “Land,” each a rigid caste society based on hair color, and each person bears a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    by Brian W. Aldiss ...
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  • Multiples: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Six

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    By the time this present group of stories was written I had passed through the cultural turbulence that engulfed nearly everyone’s life in the wild, stormy period we know as “the Sixties,” which for me had actually lasted from 1968 to 1974 or 1975. I had come through my own angry four-year-long retirement from writing in the middle 1970s, and was working again at a steady pace, though not with the ... Read more

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  • Something Wild is Loose: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Three

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    The world that these stories sprang from was the troubled, bewildering, dangerous, and very exciting world of those weird years when the barriers were down and the future was rushing into the present with the force of a river unleashed. But of course I think these stories speak to our times, too, and that most of them will remain valid as we go staggering onward through the brave new world of the ... Read more

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  • The Majipoor Cycle

    Lord Valentine's Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, and Valentine Pontifex

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    Series series The Majipoor Cycle
    The first three novels in the acclaimed sci-fi fantasy series from the award-winning author: "An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction" ( The New York Times Book Review).In the first three books of the Majipoor Cycle, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg delivered a vast and vividly imagined world full of epic adventure, court intrigue, and high drama.In Lord ... Read more

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  • The Prestimion Trilogy

    Sorcerers of Majipoor, Lord Prestimion, and The King of Dreams

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    Series series The Majipoor Cycle
    The epic sci-fi fantasy Majipoor Cycle continues with the saga of Lord Prestimion, whose rise to power is beset by war and madness.Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg returns to the richly imagined world of Majipoor. Collected here in one volume is the complete Prestimion Trilogy, set hundreds of years before the events of the first three novels.In Sorcerers of Majipoor, a ... Read more

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  • Trips: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Four

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    The stories here, all of them written between March of 1972 and November of 1973, mark a critical turning point in my career. Those who know the three earlier volumes have traced my evolution from a capable journeyman, very young and as much concerned with paying the rent as he was to advancing the state of the art, into a serious, dedicated craftsman now seeking to leave his mark on science ... Read more

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