Fiasco (light wear) - Stanislaw Lem Seigensha one image per right-hand page

one image per right-hand page

The art of renowned American watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) has been described as "one of the most original phenomena in American art"

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Also included are essays--many of them classics in their own right--on Picasso

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Fiasco (light wear) - Stanislaw Lem Seigensha one image per right-hand pageFiasco by Stanislaw Lem ISBN 9780241334355 330 page paperback from Penguin Classics *** 'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions