Selected Short Stories English Continuum 1981

title: Cosmic Carnival of Stanislaw Lem, the

original (Polish) title: Opowiadania wybrane
English title: Selected Short Stories
language: English
country: USA
place: New York
form: book
publisher: Continuum
publication date: 1981
edition: first

translator: Kandel Michael

cover: soft
cover by: Daniel Mróz
foreword: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Thing Antediluvian" by Michael Kandel
pages: 271

ISBN: 0-8264-0043-4
print-run:
series:
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Braving the Unknown:

• "The Condor" from Invincible, the
• Excerpt from Solaris

Ordeal by Space:

• "The Test" from Tales of Pirx the Pilot
• Chapter Seven of Return from the Stars

Ijon Tichy:

• Excerpt from Futurological Congress, the

The Cybernetic Fairy Tales (from Cyberiad, the and Mortal Engines):

• "Two Monsters"
• "The Second Sally, or The Offer of King Krool"
• "The Tale of Computer That Fought a Dragon"
• The History of Zipperius (from "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius")

High Nonsense from Star Diaries, the:

• "The Seventh Voyage"
• "The Fourteenth Voyage"

Literary Experiments (A Recent Experiment):

• "Les Robinsonades" from Perfect Vacuum, a