A Perfect Vacuum
Contributors: Michael Kandel (Translator)
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: April 20, 1983
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780156716864
First sentence: Reviewing nonexistent books is not Lem's invention; we find such experiments not only in a contemporary writer, Jorge Luis Borges (for example, his "Investigations of the Writings of Herbert Quaine"), but the idea goes further back-and even Rabelais was not the first to make use of it.