Mortal Engines

Resumen del libro

'A virtuoso storyteller ...a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times 'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts his kingdom into his artificial mind, but his dreams rebel. These stories range from surreal fables that satirically turn the fairy tale on its head, to longer works including the man vs. robot thriller, 'The Hunt', and possibly fiction's strangest love story, 'The Mask'. InMortal Engines Stanislaw Lem lays bare humanity's clash with machines, masterfully exploring science fiction's furthest frontiers.

Biografía del autor

Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) es uno de los más brillantes escritores de ciencia ficción del siglo XX. En "Retorno de las estrellas" construye una poderosa fábula en torno a la soledad del ser humano y a su aislamiento. Además de "Solaris", entre sus obras destacan "Diarios de las estrellas", "Ciberíada", "Congreso de futurología", "Fiasco", "Edén" y "Relatos del piloto Pirx", todas ellas publicadas en Alianza Editorial.<br> www.lem.pl