Tales of Pirx the Pilot [Audiobook] download free by Stanislaw Lem
- Listen audiobook: Tales of Pirx the Pilot
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- Release date: 1990/6/10
- Publisher: MARINER BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- ISBN: 9780156881500
- Rating: 8.72 of 10
- Votes: 590
- Review by: Omar Pruett
- Review rating: 9.75 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/11
- Duration: 2H38M in 256 kbps (43.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPC, MP3, MPEG4, WMA, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, WavPack (compression ARJ, CAB, RAR, ZIP, CBZ, ISO, TZ)
- Total pages original book: 216
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M36S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character - an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants. He is a bumbler, but an inspired one.We follow Pirx through five adventures in a time when space travel has become routine. Yet things go wrong, mysteriously and suspiciously, and Pirx is the one to investigate strange accidents - either because his superiors trust his flair, or because they consider him expendable.Whimsical, spellbinding, infused with Lem's uncannily vivid 'familiarity' with the day-to-day realities and regions of space travel, the tales of Pilot Pirx build up to a towering climax. We first meet Pirx in school, embarking on a training mission that is to drive home to him, with devastating impact, the inadequacy of textbook knowledge in an astronaut's arsenal. The final adventure finds Pirx deciphering a spaceship's sinister past with the help of a robot's retentive memory.By investing Pirx with the full range of human foibles, Lem offers here a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that may give humans the courage to confront the vastness of outer space.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Science Fiction
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.38 USD
- Dimensions: 134.6x200.7x15.2mm
- Weight: 204.12g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: San Diego, CA, United Kingdom
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