Peace on Earth ( Ijon tichy )
( Polish - Pokój na Ziemi - 1986 )
novel by Lem, Stanislaw
translated by Elinor Ford & Michael Kandel
Published: Harcourt Brace - hardback - 1994 ( US )
ISBN: 0151715548 / 9780151715541
Andre Deutsch - hardback - 1995 ( UK )
ISBN: 0233989358 / 9780233989358
Harvest / Harcourt Brace - trade paperback - 1996
ISBN: 0156002426 / 9780156002424
Harvest - trade paperback - 2002
ISBN: 015602814X / 9780156028141
synopsis
Ijon Tichy is asked to save the Earth by spying on the robots that now inhabit the Moon. In the process, a robot performs a remote callotomy on Ijon. That is, it bisects his brain front to back along the corpus-callosum. This leaves Ijon in a state of conflict with himself as his vocal left hemisphere attempts to understand and communicate with his silent, but persistent, right hemisphere. Meanwhile, Ijon is pursued by agents and double agents who want to know what Ijon (or half of him anyway) knows.
awards
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( Polish - Pokój na Ziemi - 1986 )
novel by Lem, Stanislaw
translated by Elinor Ford & Michael Kandel
Published: Harcourt Brace - hardback - 1994 ( US )
ISBN: 0151715548 / 9780151715541
Andre Deutsch - hardback - 1995 ( UK )
ISBN: 0233989358 / 9780233989358
Harvest / Harcourt Brace - trade paperback - 1996
ISBN: 0156002426 / 9780156002424
Harvest - trade paperback - 2002
ISBN: 015602814X / 9780156028141
synopsis
Ijon Tichy is asked to save the Earth by spying on the robots that now inhabit the Moon. In the process, a robot performs a remote callotomy on Ijon. That is, it bisects his brain front to back along the corpus-callosum. This leaves Ijon in a state of conflict with himself as his vocal left hemisphere attempts to understand and communicate with his silent, but persistent, right hemisphere. Meanwhile, Ijon is pursued by agents and double agents who want to know what Ijon (or half of him anyway) knows.
awards
....