"Eden" ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman des polnischen Autors Stanisław Lem. Die Geschichte beginnt mit einer Raumschiffbesatzung, die auf einem fremden Planeten namens Eden notlanden muss. Der Planet scheint zunächst unbewohnt, doch bald...

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking...

A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an...

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...

The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a...

Der Erzähler heißt Ijon Tichy: der Held der Sterntagebücher setzt hier seine außerirdischen Erkundungen fort. Zunächst betreibt er in der Schweiz Studien im Institut für Geschichtsmaschinen, einer Filiale des Ministeriums für...