The Star Diaries

When reality tears apart around you like a rotten bedsheet—when thousands of suns explode in your face—when, lifting your eyes from the page, you ask yourself, has the End of the World already begun… it can only mean that you have already started reading «The Diaries.» «It seems there isn’t a single intellectual doctrine in the world that Lem hasn’t turned upside down,» wrote London’s «New Book Review.» «Can you imagine the philosophy of Heidegger presented with the ease of Mark Twain?» echoed New York’s «Village Voice.»

«Take the seat next to the pilot,» said Ijon Tichy. «We’re going».