More Tales of Pirx the Pilot
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Lem, Stanislaw. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Hardbound. Translated by Louis Iribarne With Magdalena Majcherczyk and Michael Kandel. Jacket design by Jean-Marie Troillard. In Lem's story, 'The Inquest', included in this collection of tales centering the Polish writer's heroic everyman, Pirx, a robot is defeated due to its inability to engage in the distinctly human behaviors of doubt, hesitation, and error. In addition to his sci-fi work, Lem wrote the influential futurological text Summa Technologiae, in which he predicted both virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Metallic stamping to spine remains bright. No notable wear to book or Mylar-protected jacket. 220 pp. Fiction.
