Hardcover, 248 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 1984 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Hardcover, 248 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 1984 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review).