Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

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.

Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange experiments involving, among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy encounters make plans that are grandiose, and strike bargains that are Faustian. They pursue humanity's greatest and most ancient obsessions: immortality, artificial intelligence, and top-of-the-line consumer items.

By turns satirical, philosophical, and absurd, these stories express the most starkly original and prescient notions of a master of speculative fiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 02/18/2020
ISBN: 9780262538503
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020