Imaginary Magnitude

by Stanislaw Lem

Overview

These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544003088
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	03/29/2012
Sold by:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	832 KB

About the Author

Stanislaw Lem is the most widely translated and best known science fiction author writing outside of the English language. Winner of the Kafka Prize, he is a contributor to many magazines, including the New Yorker, and he is the author of numerous works, including Solaris.