ed. sp.: Diarios de las estrellas
auth.: Stanislaw Lem [ author, leidos ]
Dzienniki gwiazdowe is a 1957 collection of short stories by Polishwriter Stanisław Lem, expanded in 1971 around the character of space traveller Ijon Tichy.
Considerada casi unánimemente la obra maestra de Lem, y descrita a menudo como una comedia cósmica en el escenario de un universo desbocado, Diarios de las Estrellas narra las aventuras de un cosmonauta dedicado a la interminable tarea de explorar y modificar las estructuras, tanto cosmológicas como cronológicas, más sorprendentes e insólitas.
Compuesta de una primera parte de Viajes y una segunda de Memorias, estos Diarios de las estrellas -que se publican ahora por primera vez en un solo volúmen- son probablemente la mejor muestra de la aguda e ingeniosa crítica al antropocentrismo que caracteriza las mejores obras de uno de los grandes clásicos europeos de la ciencia ficción.
Sinopsis
(from wikipedia)
- Introduction and Introduction to the Expanded Edition, in whichProfessor Tarantoga presents the latest information on the documentation of Ijon Tichy's exploits.
- "The Seventh Voyage", in which a spaceship defect forces Tichy through a series of time vortices, creating a multitude of temporal copies of himself.
- "The Eighth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy represents Earth to petition for its admission to the United Planets.
- "The Eleventh Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy travels in disguise to the planet Circia to attempt to bring an end to hostilities coming from its robot population.
- "The Twelfth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy employs Prof. Tarantoga's new invention of time acceleration on the planet of Microcephalics.
- "The Thirteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy sets out to meet Master Oh. Instead, he finds two planets (Pinta and Panta) ruled according to the Master's principles. On Pinta, people are trying to become fish using a technique called evolution by persuasion. On Panta, all inhabitants are identical clones and exchange their jobs daily.
- "The Fourteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy goes hunting for Squamp (Polish: kurdel) - an animal whose area is several hectares and is being puzzled by mysterious objects, called scrupts (Polish: sepulki).
- "The Eighteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy helps create the cause of our universe from a single electron.
- "The Twentieth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy is forced by his future self to lead a programme to ameliorate Earth's and mankind's history.
- "The Twenty-first Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits Dykhtonia - a civilisation which achieved total corporeal and mental plasticity after a thousand-year rule by automorphists, the local equivalent of transhumanists.
- "The Twenty-second Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy learns of the troubles of evangelising extraterrestrial civilisations.
- "The Twenty-third Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits a tiny planet, whose inhabitants save living space by frequently storing themselves as 'atom dust'.
- "The Twenty-fourth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits a civilisation which has assigned all power to a machine to establish planetary harmony. The machine changed them all into shiny discs to be arranged in pleasant patterns across their planet.
- "The Twenty-fifth Voyage", about the evolution of potatoes.
- "The Twenty-eighth Voyage"
