![]() ![]() ![]() Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy The machine changed them all into shiny discs to be arranged in pleasant patterns across their planet. "The Twenty-fourth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits a civilisation which has assigned all power to a machine to establish planetary harmony and avoid mass unemployment."The Twenty-third Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits a tiny planet, whose inhabitants save living space by frequently storing themselves as 'atom dust'."The Twenty-second Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy learns of the troubles of evangelising extraterrestrial civilisations."The Twenty-first Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy visits Dichotica (Polish: Dykhtonia) - a civilisation which achieved total corporeal and mental plasticity after a thousand-year rule by automorphists, the local equivalent of transhumanists."The Twentieth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy is forced by his future self to lead a programme to ameliorate Earth's and mankind's history."The Eighteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy helps create the cause of our universe from a single electron."The Fourteenth Voyage", in which Ijon Tichy goes hunting for Squamp (Polish: kurdel) - an animal whose area is several hectares and is being puzzled by mysterious objects, called scrupts (Polish: sepulki).On Panta, all inhabitants are identical clones and exchange their jobs daily. On Pinta, people are trying to become fish using a technique called evolution by persuasion. Instead, he finds two planets (Pinta and Panta) ruled according to the Master's principles. ![]()
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