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Tales of Pirx the Pilot
by Stanislaw Lem
Opowiesci o pilocie Pirxie translated by Louis Iribarne
a.b.e-book v3.0 / Notes at EOF


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THROUGH SPACE BY THE SEAT OF HIS PANTS

Pilot Pirx is an astronaut, a fresh-faced physical powerhouse, but no genius. His superiors send
him on the most dangerous missions, either because he is expendable, or because they trust his bumbling
ability to survive in almost any habitat or dilemma. Follow Pirx now through a world of hyper-technology
and super-psychology from his early days as a hopelessly inept cadet soloing with a pair of sex-crazed
horseflies. . . to a farside moon station built by bickering madmen. . . to a chase through space after a
deadly sphere of light. . . to an encounter with a mossy old robot whose programming has slipped.

"Stanislaw Lem is wildly comic," says Theodore Sturgeon in The New York Times. "He is sardonic,
perplexing, insightful." Anthony Burgess in The Observer calls him "one of the most intel-ligent, erudite,
and comic writers working today." Tales of Pirx the Pilot is "pure gold for an SF buff and an exotic
new alloy for literary sorts. " -- Boston Globe


A portion of this work originally appeared in
Omni and Penthouse magazines

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English Translation Copyright ┬й 1979 by Stanislaw Lem
Published by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-1832
ISBN: 0-380-55665-0

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Lem, Stanislaw.
Tales of Pirx the pilot.
Translation of Opowiesci o pilocie Pirxie.
CONTENTS: The test. -- The conditioned reflex. --
On patrol. -- The Albatross. -- Terminus.
1. Title.
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