"A major figure who just happens to be a science fiction writer. . . very likely, he is also the bestselling SF writer in the world." -- Fantasy and Science Fiction
With over six million of his books in print worldwide, Stanisiaw Lem is perhaps the most popular -- and most critically acclaimed -- science fiction writer of our day. In MEMOIRS FOUND IN A BATHTUB, he projects a future America where a Uranian virus threatens the destruction of all paper. The final stronghold of the "papyrocracy" is the hermetically sealed underground structure known only as "The Building." Its labyrinthine net of corridors is a world of complete subterfuge -- with polygraph mittens, bugged percolators, and microphone pillows. Into the clockwork precision of this vestigial Pentagon plunges a young wanderer, unaware of the self-devouring complex of espionage that is a way of life, the rhythm of The Building. . .
Lem has created a chilling, brilliantly satiric vision of "the ultimate bureaucracy" -- where everyone is a spy, but no-one knows his mission.
"Lem is capable of an amazing richness of image and a great knack for characterization. He is wildly comic, he is sardonic, perplexing, insightful." -- THEODORE STURGEON, in The New York Times
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"A major figure who just happens to be a science fiction writer. . . very likely, he is also the bestselling SF writer in the world." -- Fantasy and Science Fiction
With over six million of his books in print worldwide, Stanisiaw Lem is perhaps the most popular -- and most critically acclaimed -- science fiction writer of our day. In MEMOIRS FOUND IN A BATHTUB, he projects a future America where a Uranian virus threatens the destruction of all paper. The final stronghold of the "papyrocracy" is the hermetically sealed underground structure known only as "The Building." Its labyrinthine net of corridors is a world of complete subterfuge -- with polygraph mittens, bugged percolators, and microphone pillows. Into the clockwork precision of this vestigial Pentagon plunges a young wanderer, unaware of the self-devouring complex of espionage that is a way of life, the rhythm of The Building. . .
Lem has created a chilling, brilliantly satiric vision of "the ultimate bureaucracy" -- where everyone is a spy, but no-one knows his mission.
"Lem is capable of an amazing richness of image and a great knack for characterization. He is wildly comic, he is sardonic, perplexing, insightful." -- THEODORE STURGEON, in The New York Times