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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
(the sequel to The Star Diaries)
by Stanislaw Lem
Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek
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"The best science fiction writer working today in any language." -- Newsweek

In this widely acclaimed sequel to The Star Diaries, Ijon Tichy, space traveler of future centuries,
discovers that "out there" isn't very different from "down here." Especially when he finds a galactic society
over which the Plenum Moronicum presides, which appoints as ruler a ruthless Machine; the inhabitants,
docilely cooperating in their own destruction, go by the name of Phools.
Tichy seems to attract inventors of splenetic genius, such as the madman who has invented the
soul, or another who invents kitchen appliances so good at their jobs they might as well be wives or
slaves. Throughout these nine wild adventures, surprise follows witty surprise for the discerning reader of
riotously imaginative fiction.

STANISLAW LEM, who "knows science well enough to be playful about it" (Time), lives in Poland and
is the author of books translated into nearly thirty languages, including Tales of Plrx the Pilot and His
Master's Voice.



English translation copyright ┬й 1982, 1981 by Stanislaw Lem
Polish-language edition published by Czytelnik, Warsaw 1971.

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The following originally appeared in The New Yorker: "The Eighteenth
Voyage," "The Twenty-fourth Voyage," "The Washing Machine Tragedy,"
and "Let Us Save the Universe."

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lem, Stanislaw.
Memoirs of a space traveler.
Translation of: Dzienniki gwiazdowe. 1971.
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Contents: The eighteenth voyage --
The twenty-fourth voyage --