Meet Ijon Tichy--a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time
machines, intelligent washing machines, and other puzzling phenomena--in
this collection from a sci-fi legend
Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a
Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers through strange experiments
involving, among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines,
intelligent washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists
Tichy encounters make plans that are grandiose, and strike bargains that
are Faustian. They pursue humanity's greatest and most ancient
obsessions: immortality, artificial intelligence, and top-of-the-line
consumer items.
By turns satirical, philosophical, and absurd, these stories express the
most starkly original and prescient notions of a master of speculative
fiction.