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A Perfect Vacuum

by Lem, Stanislaw

ISBN13: 9780156716864
ISBN10: 0156716860
eBook ISBN(s): 9780547543758
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1983-04-01
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Summary

This is a collection of perfect yet imaginary reviews of nonexistent books. With insidious wit, the author beguiles us with a parade of delightful, disarmingly familiar inventions. "Lem is Harpo Marx and Franz Kafka and Isaac Asimov rolled up into one and down the white rabbit's hole" (Detroit News). A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Table of Contents

A Perfect Vacuum

3

(6)

S. Lem

Les Robinsonades

9

(19)

Marcel Coscat

Gigamesh

28

(13)

Patrick Hannahan

Sexplosion

41

(8)

Simon Merrill

Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI

49

(20)

Alfred Zellermann

Rien du tout, ou la consequence

69

(11)

Solange Marriot

Pericalypsis

80

(6)

Joachim Fersengeld

Idiota

86

(10)

Gian Carlo Spallanzani

U-W rite-It

96

(6)

Odysseus of Ithaca

102

(10)

Kuno Mlatje

Toi

112

(5)

Raymond Sewart

Being Inc.

117

(10)

Alastair Waynewright

Die Kultur als Fehler

127

(14)

Wilhelm Klopper

De Impossibilitate Vitae and De Impossibilitate Prognoscendi

141

(26)

Cezar Kouska

Non Serviam

167

(30)

The New Cosmogony

197

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