Word: lemming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Coach Bill Cleary pleased with the Crimson faithful? "You bet your life. The fans have been great," he said after the Cornell game. "I love those kids. You give lem a big thanks from the whole Harvard hockey team. And tell them to keep coming and keep torturing that opposing goaltender...
FICTION: The Age of Wonders, Aharon Appelfeld ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ Funeral Games, Mary Renault ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving ∙ Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike
MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER by Stanislaw Lem...
These nine stories were left out of The Star Diaries (1976), an English translation of a 1971 Polish collection by Author Stanislaw Lem. The fact that this new book has thus tumbled out of a time warp seems entirely appropriate to its contents. More so, in fact, than the rather misleading title. Lem is not concerned here with rockets or star treks; only two stories take Ijon Tichy, the peripatetic hero and chronicler of The Star Diaries, away from planet Earth. The space that is traveled is chiefly cranial; vast internal distances are covered by leaps of imagination...
...Lem is not just another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...