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9780156716864

A Perfect Vacuum

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  • ISBN13:

    9780156716864

  • ISBN10:

    0156716860

  • 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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