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Lance

'The illegible signature of teetering disaster'

Three great stories — The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance — the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 64
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-241-33952-7
  • EAN
  • 9780241339527
  • Release date
  • 2018