This third appearance for imperturbable astronaut Ijon Tichy extends the horrifying notions on future weapons and warfare that Lem advanced in One Human Minute. The governments of Earth have banished the arms race to the moon, where miniaturized, self-replicating weapons equipped with artificial instincts were provided the means to evolve and compete in utter secrecy - the intended outcome being a self-adjusted stalemate. However...
- ISBN10 0233989358
- ISBN13 9780233989358
- Publish Date 25 May 1995 (first published 1 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 February 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Welbeck Publishing Group
- Imprint Andre Deutsch Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English