THE STAR DIARIES

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tich y and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hope lessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from on e of the greatest of science fiction writers.