Mortal Engines - Stanislaw Lem collage enchanting and surpassingly strange

enchanting and surpassingly strange

rendered with masterly precision and attention to detail

with its beautiful botanical illustrations of mushrooms and fungi drawn by European and Japanese naturalists in 18th to 19th century

For die-hard Moomin fans or those new to the characters

In tracing the evolution of the analogue synthesizer from its invention in the early 1960’s to the digital revolution of the 1980s right up until the point that analogue circuits could be modeled using software in the mid-1990’s

Mortal Engines - Stanislaw Lem collage enchanting and surpassingly strangeMortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem ISBN 9780241269077 226 page paperback from Penguin Classics *** "A virtuoso storyteller a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age" The New York Times 'He was a robot hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.' A freighter pilot leads a manhunt across the Moon for a robot gone berserk; a shapeshifting assassin falls in love with the man she's programmed to kill; a paranoid King converts