Return from the Stars

Return from the Stars

( Polish - Powrot s gwiazd - 1961 )

novel by Stanislaw Lem

translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson

Published: Harcourt - hardback - 1980 ( US )
ISBN: 0151770824 / 9780151770823

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. - hardback - 1980 ( UK )
ISBN: 0436244152 / 9780436244155

Avon Books - paperback - 1982
ISBN: 0380585782 / 9780380585786

Harcourt - hardback - 1989
ISBN: 0156765934 / 9780156765930

Mandarin - paperback - 1990
ISBN: 074930488X / 9780749304881

omnibus edition Tales of Pirx the Pilot - Return from the Stars - The Invincible
King Penguin - trade paperback - 1982
ISBN: 0140060987 / 9780140060980

excerpt only;
Omni, June 1980
Omni Publications International Ltd - magazine - 1980
ISBN: none

The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 4
Omni Publications International Ltd - magazine - 1982
ISBN: none

synopsis
Hal Bregg returns from an interstellar expedition to the world he left 127 years before. Violence has been eliminated along with the desire to take risks and explore. Includes a brief scene from the furnaces where robots go to die that is reminiscent of The Cyberiad.

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