A Perfect Vacuum
Contributors: M. Kandel (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Mandarin
Published: March 1991
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780749305383
Subjects: Science fiction; Short stories
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.