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Beschreibung

'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'

The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...

'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'

The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...

Über den Autor
Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) was born in Lviv, then part of Poland. He is probably the most original and influential European science-fiction writer since H.G. Wells. Best known in the West for Tarkovsky's film of his novel Solaris, Lem wrote novels and stories that have been published all over the world. He is credited with anticipating in his writing artificial reality, e-books and nano-technology. His most famous works include The Cyberiad, Mortal Engines, The Star Diaries, The Futurological Congress, Tales of Pirx the Pilot and Solaris.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Penguin Modern Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780241334355
ISBN-10: 0241334357
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lem, Stanislaw
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Modern Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stanislaw Lem
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.07.2018
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 113135082

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